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
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM, slesage<[email protected]> 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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