John O'Donovan wrote:
The Telegraph are (allegedly) producing a large supplement explaining
some of the _redacted details_...
I can neither confirm or deny this information.
Cheers,
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*From:* [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Alex
Mace
*Sent:* 19 June 2009 16:30
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [backstage-developer] Nice bit of crowd-sourcing
I presume someone has tried the old trick of extracting the pictures
from PDF to make sure they didn't just apply the redaction over the
top of the pictures? Sounds unlikely, but it's been done before...
On 19 Jun 2009, at 16:23, Brian Butterworth wrote:
2009/6/19 John O'Donovan <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
We did something similar, but it's the low tech version... :o)
_http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8106044.stm_
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8106044.stm>
with things people have found being published here...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8106650.stm
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8106650.stm>__
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8106650.stm>
I like what the Guardian have done with this - been playing with
it...
After an hour I start wondering about using OCR software...
Does anyone know of a command line OCR tool that I could use?
Something that works with PHP perhaps?
As it seems very easy to get at the images from
the http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/page/X
<http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/page/194884/>/ pages as there is
only one image in the whole document. Running OCR will generate lots
of crud, but it could be matched against the human input to act as
validation.
Cheers,
_* *_
*John O'Donovan*
Chief Technical Architect
*BBC Future Media & Technology (Journalism)
*BC3 C1, Broadcast Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/
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<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of
*Brian Butterworth
*Sent:* 19 June 2009 09:46
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* [backstage-developer] Nice bit of crowd-sourcing
Nice bit
of crowd-sourcing I think here:
http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/
Shame the
app's not AJAX, would been easier to use that way, but generally
a great way
of checking 77252 pages of documents.
Kind-of-wondering why Auntie didn't do it first, but...
All the best
Brian Butterworth
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It's so funny to see steganography in action in this context. BTW is
steganography the correct term for this?
Cheers,
Dillon
