• A simple python script that captures utm geographic coordinates from Brazilian public documents and saves in a .txt files.

• This was custom made for a GreenPeace analyst that needed to map a conservation unit but was spending hours of work to manually transcript these information.

• Captures string occurrences everytime it finds a matching pattern for E: 356.344,839 or N: 8.923.122,327 or similar.

From pages of this -> to ->> -> in minutes

You need to have python 3 installed

1. Copy and paste text whose coordinates you want to capture, from .pdf, .doc or whatever to .txt file, and name it text_public_doc.txt
2. Open terminal in the directory where this .txt file is
3. run python3 capt_utm_from_string.py
4. Your result should be in coords_results.txt
5. Open file in Microsoft Excel or other editor to format according to your GIS program and create your shapefile