Re: [Pharo-users] Parsing text to discover general data of interest (phone, email, address, ...)

[Benoit St-Jean via Pharo-users]

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https://github.com/search?q=contact+scraping&type=Repositories

I guess we have all that's needed in Pharo : parsers (HTML, XML, PetitParser), Soup & regex !

On 2019-03-07 04:52, Cédrick Béler wrote:

Hi all,

I’ve often got the need to analyse some random unstructured text to discover 
(structured) information (in email for instance), to extract :
- emails
- telephone numbers
- addresses
- events
- person names (according to a list of known persons),
- etc…

Apple do it in email for instance (strangely, this is not generalized).


So my questions are :
- do we have something equivalent in Smalltalk/Pharo ? (I didn’t find)
- if not, what strategy would you use ?
=> I do really stupid text analysis (substrings, finding @, …, parsing 
according to the text structure when there is… kind of Soup parsing…)
=> I feel this is a job for PetitParser ? And would be a nice feet to the new 
GToolkit.

All ideas or suggestions are welcome ;-)


TIA,

Cédrick

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