Mining Scientific Literature (MSL) Ver 1.0.0
Zeeshan Ahmed · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2015
Mining Scientific Literature (MSL) is a software tool that supports the extraction of text and images by interpreting all kinds of published PDF files using advanced data mining and image processing techniques. It provides modules for the marginalization of extracted text based on the different coordinates and keywords, visualization of extracted figures and extraction of embedded text from all kinds of biological and biomedical figures using applied OCR. Moreover, for further analysis and usage, it generates system’s output in different formats including text, PDF, XML and images files. Hence, MSL is an easy to install and use analysis tool to interpret published scientific literature in PDF format.