We OCR'ed 60k pages of the JFK files with AI
We OCR'ed 60k pages of the JFK files with AI launched on March 19, 2025 with 11 votes, #2,427 of 7,215 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
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Doctly used artificial intelligence to perform optical character recognition on 60,000 pages of declassified JFK files, converting scanned documents into searchable text. The project is designed for researchers, historians, and the general public seeking to access and analyze the contents of these historical documents. The work stands out for its scale and application of modern AI technology to a significant collection of government records.
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