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A machine learning software for extracting information from scholarly documents

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  • ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 94% of recent commits
  • ✓Last commit 1d ago
  • ✓6 active contributors
  • ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
  • ✓CI configured
  • ✓Tests present

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Repository brief

Repo brief: grobidOrg/grobid

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Mixed — Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

  • Last commit 1d ago
  • 6 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • 1 more receipt on the live page

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What it is

GROBID is a machine learning library for extracting, parsing, and structuring raw PDF documents—especially scholarly articles—into TEI-XML with metadata fields like headers, references, authors, affiliations, and citations. It combines CRF (Conditional Random Fields) models with Deep Learning via DELFT/JEP to achieve ~0.87-0.90 F1-score on reference extraction and ~0.76-0.91 on citation resolution across PubMed Central and bioRxiv datasets. Monorepo structure: grobid-core (Java main engine, 4.1MB), grobid-home (models and native libs), doc/ (extensive guides), .github/workflows/ (6 parallel CI pipelines for CRF/DELFT/ONNX variants). Build system uses Gradle with plugins for Kotlin…

Start here

Open these first:

  • build.gradle — Root build configuration defining all project dependencies, plugins (Kotlin, Shadow, Spotless), and platform-specific JNI…
  • gradle.properties — Gradle configuration properties that control build behavior, version numbers, and dependency resolution for the entire…
  • Readme.md — Entry point documenting GROBID's purpose (ML-based scholarly document information extraction), key features, and links to…
  • doc/Install-Grobid.md — Critical installation guide covering prerequisites, build steps, and environment setup required for all developers to run…
  • doc/Notes-grobid-developers.md — Developer-focused documentation explaining project architecture, testing patterns, and contribution conventions specific to…

Get running

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git clone https://github.com/grobidOrg/grobid.git && cd grobid && ./gradlew build (requires JDK 11+, Gradle 8.3+). For Python/JEP support: ensure CONDA_PREFIX or VIRTUAL_ENV is set. For Docker: docker build -f Dockerfil…

Daily commands:

./gradlew build && ./gradlew run (check build.gradle for exact tasks). Service mode: java -jar build/libs/grobid-*.jar or use Dockerfile.crf. Batch: see doc/Grobid-batch.md for CLI entrypoints. DELFT variant requires CO…

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  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 94% of recent commits
    1. JEP Python integration requires CONDA_PREFIX or VIRTUAL_ENV env var AND matching Python version site-packages in lib path (see getJavaLibraryPath closure); missing setup silently fails at runtime. 2)…
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