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Tomorrow will be two weeks since I asked for proposed city budget data in a format that's not a pdf or glossy diagram. Have had no reply (from Strauss' office or the budget office). Sigh.

I emailed a followup request on 10/31 and still no. If I want to do any data analysis comparing year over year budgets before they vote I will have to extract from PDFs. SIGH.

Shawn Wilsher

@rachael Does the PDF have selectable text at least, or is it in image form?

@sdwilsh Havent tried yet. I know of libraries that can extract more programmatically anyway. the real challenge is mapping the line items to the open data CSVs they publish for previous years.