Asset-Level Location Extraction from Corporate Sustainability PDF Reports

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Authors: Ahmed Elhefnawy, Marcel Metzger, Emily Kormanyos
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Abstract

This repository contains a Python script (reports_NER_for_pdf.py) that extracts location entities from PDF files and classifies them into asset-related locations and other locations. The script uses spaCy NER, dependency parsing, optional fuzzy matching with RapidFuzz, and optional BERT-based sentence classification (not yet implemented). All runtime settings are read from a configuration file (cfg.yml).

Fields of Study & Subjects

Topic Modeling Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques Advanced Text Analysis Techniques

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
10 February 2026
Language
EN