[Developers] Any good sources of license-compatible data that need importing into Freebase?

[Peter Burns]

Do you have a link to one of them?  I've never tried to parse a PDF
document, but it looks like there are a number of tools available in a few
languages I'm competent in.

On 9/8/07, Paul Tomblin <ptomblin at xcski.com> wrote:
>
> Quoting Peter Burns (rictic at gmail.com):
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm a coder with some time on his hands, a penchant for screen-scraping
> and
> > data transforming, and a deep ideological agreement with putting data
> into a
> > convenient form for easy access.
> >
> > Know databases that need to be imported into Freebase?  I'd like to
> > contribute.
>
> Do you know anything about scraping data from PDF files?  Many countries
> publish their aeronautical data only in PDF formats.  I used to get this
> data from the DAFIF (Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File), but
> the US Government that published it withdrew it from public use.
>
>
> --
> Paul Tomblin <ptomblin at xcski.com> http://blog.xcski.com/
> "Guns don't shoot people.  Vice Presidents shoot people."
>
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