In the last two weeks the MuckRock team released the ability to pin your projects on DocumentCloud, the ability to update your card on file without making a new purchase and several Add-On improvements including two new Add-Ons: OCR Scheduler and Page Counter.

At NICAR 2024, University of Texas students demonstrated their use of DocumentCloud to compile local campaign finance reports, overcoming challenges with the use of enhanced OCR and categorizing their documents with tagging.

A side-by-side comparison of five OCR tools using multiple kinds of documents from DocumentCloud.

The DocumentCloud team is pleased to introduce a new way to upload responsive documents from your MuckRock requests directly to DocumentCloud, three powerful new OCR tools and several enhancements to our Python wrapper for the DocumentCloud API. These updates will help you upload documents more efficiently and provide better error tracking.

DocumentCloud has had many feature updates within the last couple of months, including the ability to de-index documents from DocumentCloud’s public search and search engines like Google, the ability to upload documents via email, several new Add-Ons and pro features which include the ability to search publicly accessible notes and use Amazon’s Textract OCR to get better text extraction from within hard-to-OCR documents.