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