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How I Processed 666K Pages of Flattened PDFs into a Full Text Search Engine
In 2017 the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released the JFK files in an unsearchable manner 🔍. I tried doing manual research 🕵🏻. I relied on their provided CSV file of metadata to look for relevant documents to discover something - but I was looking for a needle in the haystack. I didn't know where to begin - but at the very least, I wanted to be able to search the contents therein. At least the National Archives allowed me to bulk download the PDFs. From that, I was able to...
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