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Hey, I'm Dylan! I'm a software engineer working on elections at The Washington Post. On the side (and occasionally for my job) I create general-purpose, open source tools and software to help journalists, students, researchers, and others.

Some notable projects I've been working on recently include:

  • Semantra, a Python- and Svelte-based semantic search engine that runs locally on text and PDF files
  • Textra, a Mac command-line app to extract text from images, PDF, and audio

The work I do on the side is fulfilling and meaningful to me, and I hope it can be serviceable to as many people as possible. If you find my work useful, please consider sponsoring my work. Thank you!

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Featured work

  1. freedmand/semantra

    Multi-tool for semantic search

    Python 2,287
  2. freedmand/textra

    A command-line application to convert images, PDFs, and audio files to text using Apple's APIs

    Swift 580
  3. washingtonpost/crosswalker

    A general purpose tool for text-based crosswalking

    TypeScript 97
  4. washingtonpost/FastFEC

    An extremely fast FEC filing parser written in C

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