Data Engineering

Parsing the Paper Mountain: Criminal Intelligence Is a Document Problem Before It Is an AI Problem

The TL;DR is that most of what we call criminal-intelligence "big data" is not data at all. It is documents. Scanned exhibits, phone extraction reports, transcripts of intercepted calls, handwritten ledgers, and decades of paper briefs sitting in evidence rooms. Before any model can reason over a case, something has to read the page, and the parsing layer that does the reading quietly sets the ceiling on what every downstream stage can ever know.