Solution for "Business Card OCR" from http://asymmetrik.com/programming-challenges/
Requires Maven 3.2.2+ and Java JDK 8.
Uses the Apache OpenNLP to perform Name Entity Recognition (NER) on proper names in data sent as an input.
To use this code clone from github and run a mvn clean install from the command line. This will create a:
target/business-card-parser-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-depencies.jar.
In the target directory you can run it as follows:
user@hostname ~/path/to/business-card-parser/target$ cat ../src/test/resources/example-arthur-wilson.txt
Arthur Wilson
Software Engineer
Decision & Security Technologies
ABC Technologies
123 North 11th Street
Suite 229
Arlington, VA 22209
Tel: +1 (703) 555-1259
Fax: +1 (703) 555-1200
user@hostname ~/path/to/business-card-parser/target$ java -jar business-card-parser-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar
usage: business-card-parser.jar
-f,--file <arg> File to parse
-h,--help Show help
user@hostname ~/path/to/business-card-parser/target$ java -jar business-card-parser-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar -f ../src/test/resources/example-arthur-wilson.txt
Name: Arthur Wilson
Phone: 17035551259
Email: awilson@abctech.com