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

[James Reid]

On 17/01/12 16:11, James Reid wrote:
> You could check out our Unlock Text service at:
>
> http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/texts/introduction
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>
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> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM, slesage<slesage at geo.gob.bo>  wrote:
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>> >>  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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