Update: This project is now complete. Read the first story from the investigation, or search the register here.

Politicians are required to declare details of gifts, investments, business interests, and other items that could influence their decisions in parliament. However, half the pecuniary interests register in NSW has never been viewable online by the public, and the other half is hard to find. All of the declarations are only available as scanned PDFs, sometimes handwritten, which makes it difficult to properly scrutinise the register.

With your help we can change that by transcribing the register and flagging entries that are worth investigating further.

Read more here, or start investigating below. Report bugs and issues in the comments or via email - nick.evershed@theguardian.com. All the PDFs are available here.