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On Jun 18, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Matt Sherman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I am working with colleague on a side project which involves some scanned > bibliographies and making them more web searchable/sortable/browse-able. > While I am quite familiar with the metadata and organization aspects we > need, but I am at a bit of a loss on how to automate the process of putting > the bibliography in a more structured format so that we can avoid going > through hundreds of pages by hand. I am pretty sure regular expressions > are needed, but I have not had an instance where I need to automate > extracting data from one file type (PDF OCR or text extracted to Word doc) > and place it into another (either a database or an XML file) with some > enrichment. I would appreciate any suggestions for approaches or tools to > look into. Thanks for any help/thoughts people can give. If I understand your question correctly, then you have two problems to address: 1) converting PDF, Word, etc. files into plain text, and 2) marking up the result (which is a bibliography) into structure data. Correct? If so, then if your PDF documents have already been OCRed, or if you have other files, then you can probably feed them to TIKA to quickly and easily extract the underlying plain text. [1] I wrote a brain-dead shell script to run TIKA in server mode and then convert Word (.docx) files. [2] When it comes to marking up the result into structured data, well, good luck. I think such an application is something Library Land sought for a long time. “Can you say Holy Grail?" [1] Tika - https://tika.apache.org [2] brain-dead script - https://gist.github.com/ericleasemorgan/c4e34ffad96c0221f1ff — Eric