Document Intelligence
Are you a government or organization that depends on semi-structured data, which, in the end, are not very structured at all?
technology for people and planet
Data Visualization
Are you a provider of public data that wants to make these data actually accessible, understandable, and useful to the public?
Language Technologies
Are you a minority language community in need of models and tools to document, teach, and revitalize your language in the digital world?
Recent posts
Presenting PLAYA-PDF (and PAVÉS)
Feb 25, 2026
If you need to delve into the murky depths of a PDF to return with
spices and silk extract metadata, images, and yes, even text, I
have some excellent Free Software for you:
PLAYA-PDF and
PAVÉS. If you’d like to know how
this came to be, then continue reading. And if you need a consultant
for document intelligence tasks, large and small, I’m currently
available for contracts of all sorts!
TypeScript modules With Emscripten and CMake, part 5
Feb 27, 2023
Let’s set up CMake to build everything with maximum optimization with the -Oz option, which should be passed at both compile and link time. (Note: I will not discuss -flto here, because it is only useful when dealing with the eldritch horrors of C++). While we’re at it we’ll also disable support for the longjmp function which we know our library doesn’t use:
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TypeScript modules With Emscripten and CMake, part 4
Feb 24, 2023
Just by screwing around on the command line, we were previously able to produce a more or less useful CommonJS module wrapping the real-valued FFT function from the Kiss FFT library (though not as useful as the existing one on npmjs.org). Now let’s look at how we can build a module with CMake as part of the library’s build system. [read more]
About me
Originally trained in linguistics, with over 25 years of experience in speech and natural language processing technology, I have also developed a wide range of expertise in open-source software development, as a maintainer and valued contributor to numerous projects.