Ted Han
Ted Han was the lead technologist behind DocumentCloud from 2011 to 2018, a successful project and hosting service used widely for publication of newsworthy documents and for document analysis. Ted has been involved in open source software for 15 years, was lead developer at Investigative Reporters and Editors and taught at Missouri University School of Journalism.
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Articles by Ted
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Our Search for the Best OCR Tool, and What We Found
A side-by-side comparison of seven OCR tools using multiple kinds of documents, from Factful
Posted onWe couldn’t find single side by side comparison of the most accessible OCR options, so we ran a handful of documents through seven different tools, and compared the results.
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Protecting Your Sources When Releasing Sensitive Documents
Scrub metadata, redact information properly, search for microdots & more
Posted onCritical advice for protecting sources when releasing sensitive documents.
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What AMP (Maybe) Means for News Developers
A Source roundtable on the implications of Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages
Posted onWhen Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP, naturally) arrived late last week, the journalism internet produced a rainbow of responses. We invited a few news developers to comment at greater length, and they dug into the issues with gusto and rigor.
Our search for the best tabular-data extraction tool in 2024, and what we found