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license: cc0-1.0
language:
- en
pretty_name: JFK declassified documents March 2025 raw
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On March 18th 2025, 2182 previously classified documents related to the investigation the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were made public at https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025

This dataset contains the OCR-ed versions of those PDF files.  I have used the `pdf2image` library with DPI set to 250 followed by the `tesseract` OCR library to generate an intermediary `.txt` file from each document.

The documents are aged and the quality of the OCR-ed text reflects that.  The file `jfk_2025_raw.parquet` contains the direct output of the OCR process.  You may be more interested in the dataset `zlatinb/jfk-2025-cleaned`.