[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Re: Automatic geocoding of PDF documents (slesage)

[James Reid]

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM, slesage<slesage at geo.gob.bo>  wrote:

> >>  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.

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