Michael Lissner January 27, 2012 At CourtListener, we’re developing a new system to convert scanned court documents to text. As part of our development we’ve analyzed more than 1,000 court opinions to determine what fonts courts are using. Now that we have this information,our next step is to create training data for our OCR system so that it specializes...
Michael Lissner November 19, 2013 Today marks another big day for the Free Law Project. We’re happy to share that we’ve created the first ever API for U.S. Legal Opinions. An API — or Application Programming Interface — is a way for computers to talk to each other and consume each others’ data in an automated fashion. From this day...
Michael Lissner March 27, 2017 We have a small update to share today, as we’ve wrapped up adding thousands of historical Supreme Court citations to our collection. These are the original citations for the Supreme Court from 1754 to 1874, from before when the United States Reports had begun. Previously we had many of these citations, but as of today we can say...