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PDF Liberation Hackathon Jan 17-19, 2014

January 2014 by Olaf Drümmer

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The Sunlight Foundation PDF Liberation Hackathon will be held at 6 locations on the Jan 17-19, 2014, weekend. It will focus on applying PDF extraction technologies to real world problems. … Read more

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March 2012 by Duff Johnson

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