Abram Handler
Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAbram Handler is an assistant professor at the Leeds School of Business (University of Colorado Boulder) with 11 years of experience bridging computer science research and applied systems. He studies natural language processing and human-computer interaction, publishing and presenting at major venues such as EMNLP, NAACL, KDD and ICML. His background spans academic research (PhD/MS in Computer Science) and practical engineering—contributing to open-source tools like docsplit to harden OCR text extraction and improve configurability. He has built web and data systems for startups and public health agencies, combining production-grade backend skills with an interest in the linguistic and statistical foundations of NLP. Based in Denver, he brings a rare mix of legal/public-interest investigative experience and technical depth that informs user-centered research.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy at Columbia University in the City of New YorkMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
ocr10
tesseractjs10
tess4j10
tesseract10
command-line9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
documentcloud/docsplit
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Break Apart Documents into Images, Text, Pages and PDFs
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
Contributions summary:Abram primarily focused on enhancing the text extraction capabilities of the `docsplit` library. They implemented a new option (`--no-orientation-detection`) to disable automatic orientation detection in Tesseract OCR. They also added checks for missing dependencies, and adjusted arguments to match the project's coding style. The user's contributions improved the configurability and robustness of the OCR text extraction process.
breakpdfpdfs
AbeHandler/data
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:144 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 4 months
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