[OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

[slesage]

Hi,

does anybody knows about some opensource software dedicated to 
automatic geocoding of text documents ? The idea of that "black box" 
would be:
* give, as an input, a text document or a PDF,
* receive, as an output, a list of place names with their coordinates / 
a map of POI corresponding to that places.

Using the geonames database (http://www.geonames.org/), the solution 
appears to be only a fulltext search, that could be done using Lucene 
(https://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html).

I found the metacarta solution 
(http://www.metacarta.com/products-platform-geotag.htm) but couldn't 
find any opensource solution.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Sylvain Lesage.