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http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/struggle/chartists1/historicalsources/source6/kenningtoncommon.html
• Redo the OCR of original image files using AbbyyFinereader 12
OCR
• Python code to extract place names &
• geo-code places using a gazetteer
Geo-code • Python code with regex to extract dates
• Basic NLP to calculate the dates of words like ‘tomorrow’
Date
https://github.com/BL-Labs/meetingsparser
http://www.silva-sandbox.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/old-graduate/research/space