Asset declarations in Ukraine: from pdf to machine readable

Purposes of officials’ assets declaring to avoid conflict of interests to prevent illicit enrichment

Why turn pdf to machine readable data? to make quick requests to see changes in accounts and property to compare and make top-lists

“Declarations” mobile app

   ??? copyable text pdf scrappers and parsers image of typed text OCR programs handwritten text  ???

Using volunteers help create database of people willing to help divide volunteers into independent groups give the different groups same tasks compare the results of each group

Dealing with differences for not so big datasets: human recheck for large datasets: choosing the most frequent variant

Some tips on working with volunteers keep the form for data input entering as simple as possible use “choose from a list” option when possible provide volunteers with detailed and simple instructions on format keep main group and check group independent