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Chapter 5: Getting Text Out of an Image-Only PDF

Dollars for Docs Data Guide: A tutorial on converting images of tabular data to actual text for a spreadsheet.

Open Source Project: Thinner

Today we're releasing a new open source project called "Thinner."

A Tale of Two Documents

On Oct. 8, we published an interactive comparing separate versions of the same court opinion in a lawsuit brought by a Gitmo detainee. Here's how we did it.

The Rainbow Connection: How We Made Our CDO Connections Graphic

On Wednesday, we launched an interactive news application to help readers understand the cross-owned nature of Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) in 2006-2007. Here's how we did it.

Pixel Ping: A node.js Stats Tracker

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Introducing our new Nerd Blog, which will let technical readers know what ProPublica’s News Applications desk is up to.

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