How OpenElections Uses LLMs – Derek Willis
In the 12-plus years that we’ve been turning official precinct election results into data at OpenElections, the single biggest problem has been converting pictures of results into CSV files. Many of the precinct results files we get are image PDFs, and for those there are essentially two options: data entry or Optical Character Recognition. The former has some advantages, but not many. While most people are not great at manual repetitive tasks, you can improve with lots of practice, to the point...
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