grobid-ner is a sub-module of Grobid.
Grobid installation
Grobid is library for extracting and structuring the content of technical and scientific documents. The tool offers a convenient environment for creating efficient text mining tool based on CRF.
Clone Grobid source code from github, latest stable version (currently 0.7.3):
> git clone https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid.git --branch 0.7.3
Then build Grobid, in the main directory:
> cd grobid
> ./gradlew clean install
For further explanations, see the Install Grobid documentation page
grobid-ner settings
Use a grobid-ner version in sync with Grobid version.
Clone source code of current master grobid-ner from github:
> cd grobid/
> git clone https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid-ner.git
Copy the provided pre-trained model in the standard grobid-home path:
> ./gradlew copyModels
Then build the grobid-ner subproject:
> ./gradlew clean install