ChemDataExtractor
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ChemDataExtractor v2 is a toolkit for extracting chemical information from the scientific literature. Python 3.9 to Python 3.11 supported.


Installation
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#### Create a virtual environment, for example with `conda`

`conda create -n cde2 python=3.11`

#### Activate the `cde2` environment

`conda activate cde2`

#### Install `chemdataextractor2` with `pip`

`pip install chemdataextractor2`


Features
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- HTML, XML and PDF document readers
- Chemistry-aware natural language processing pipeline
- Chemical named entity recognition
- Rule-based parsing grammars for property and spectra extraction
- Table parser for extracting tabulated data
- Document processing to resolve data interdependencies

Documentation & Development
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Please read the documentation for instructions on contributing to the project.

https://cambridgemolecularengineering-chemdataextractor-development.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/

License
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ChemDataExtractor v2 is licensed under the `MIT license`_, a permissive, business-friendly license for open source
software.

MIT license: https://github.com/CambridgeMolecularEngineering/ChemDataExtractor/blob/master/LICENSE