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In this edition of GIJN Toolbox, we examine the latest advancements from the IRE22 conference on data extraction and optical character recognition (OCR) tools for turning unwieldy documents into searchable spreadsheets.
Newsrooms don’t need large budgets for analyzing data–they can easily access basic data tools that are free or inexpensive. Editor and Associate Professor Nils Mulvad explains how.
Whether it’s tables of data embedded in reports or spreadsheets saved as PDFs, journalists get lots of data in PDF format. But until you get that data into a spreadsheet, there’s not much you can do with it. Luckily, there are a few great tools that can liberate your data quickly and with relative ease.
ऐसे कई उपकरण हैं, जो डेटा को बेहद कम समय में बेहद आसानी से आपके उपयोग लायक बना सकते हैं। मैंने जिन उपकरणों को सफलतापूर्वक आजमाया है, उनकी जानकारी यहां प्रस्तुत है। साथ ही, पीडीएफ से जुड़े कई सुझाव दिए गए हैं, जिनमें रोटेटेड टेबल का उपयोग, स्कैन किए गए पीडीएफ को बदलने तथा पासवर्ड संरक्षित पीडीएफ संबंधी मामले शामिल हैं।
It’s been a year of great reads on GIJN, from “how they did it” to the best tips and tools on everything from mojo to mapping. Here’s a curated list of top ten reader favorites from stories published in 2017.