Lilly HunterNow this is useful technology.
erinaceus@LaChasseuse Cool! I would like to have something like that, too. But I think we only get this data in PDF format, so not exactly machine readable…
David Cohen@erinaceus @LaChasseuse Converting PDF to machine readable format is one of the few things AI is really good at
MWT@davidbcohen @erinaceus @LaChasseuse it doesn't even need to be AI. OCR technology is 20+ years old...
@mwt @davidbcohen @LaChasseuse It's PDF, so the text is somewhere in there in digital form. It would just be very annoying to get it out. And if they change the layout, I would have to redo the script. So I'd rather add the 26 dates per year for the yellow bin (which is the only one that I personally have to care about) manually.
Until my town gets an API for these dates.