http://jonathanstray.com/to-apply-ai-for-good-think-form-extraction
To apply AI for good, think form extraction
Posted on October 24, 2020 Author Jonathan Stray
“Folks who want to use AI/ML for good generally think of things like building predictive models, but smart methods for extracting data from forms would do more for journalism, climate science, medicine, democracy etc. than almost any other application…. Given that extracting data from paper forms is difficult, expensive, and widely useful you’d think that this would be solved by now. And it sort of is, but not for the kinds of cases above.”