These are tools that have been suggested to me to extract structured data from a PDF files:
Tag: tools
technology and activism
Here are two new instances of technology (both via boingboing) that seem to really aid social justice movements.
Cause Caller is a VOIP tool that lets you define a cause and contacts related to that cause (for instance, congressional representatives on a panel investigating a particular issue). Users can then enter their phone number and the application will call them back and connect them with the different contacts.
ICED (I Can End Deportation) is a video game made by the human rights group Breakthrough that, according to Breakthrough’s website:
puts you in the shoes of an immigrant to illustrate how unfair immigration laws deny due process and violate human rights. These laws affect all immigrants: legal residents, those fleeing persecution, students and undocumented people.