Boston Police Journal Parser

This website takes the PDF journals that the Boston Police Department provides and parses them into structured JSON for consumption.

The Boston Police Department releases Public Journals (also called District Journals) regularly on its blog bpdnews.com in PDF format. But these PDFs are useless if you want to process or ingest the data. This service converts the PDFs into usable JSON.

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Usage

Forms

You can use one of the forms to upload a PDF or enter the URL of a PDF for processing.

API

Alternatively, you can POST the URL of a valid PDF file as urlfile to https://boston-police-journal-parser.herokuapp.com/process-url.php.