In joe-devivo/pdfSpeciesScraper: Extraction of Species Names from Data Store PDF Documents

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Overview of Steps

Basically there are three steps, each of which are described in detail below:

• Creating or updating the species dictionary file.
• Getting files ready for porocessing.
• Processing the files and comparing against the dictionary

Before you Start

Creating a Dictionary File

Getting files ready for processing

Processing files

How things are supposed to work

What to do when things don't work

Viewing Results

Coming Soon

• SQL views for pdf files, taxonomy, and reference geolocations so that data are dynamically updated as they are edited/added in Data Store.
• Desktop application to QC the hit data.
• Additional R functions to identify potential outlier hits based on observation data from external repositories such as eBird, iNaturalist, iDigBio, and gBif.

joe-devivo/pdfSpeciesScraper documentation built on May 17, 2019, 2:15 a.m.