Cliff

http://cliff.mediameter.org https://www.quora.com/Is-there-an-API-for-text-to-geolocation

OpenCalais

http://www.opencalais.com/opencalais-api

Georapy

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/geograpy/0.3.7

Geodict

Not touched since 2010 http://github.com/petewarden/geodict

Geotext

https://geotext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/readme.html

OpenBlock Geocoder

https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2011/12/16/openblock-geocoder-part-2-text-parsing-and-entity-extraction/

GeoNames

http://www.opensemanticsearch.org/enhancer/geonames

Resources

Determining geo location by arbitrary body of text http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17386394/determining-geo-location-by-arbitrary-body-of-text

Location extraction with fuzzy matching capabilities http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24622693/location-extraction-with-fuzzy-matching-capabilities

Natural Language Processing: What APIs and libraries can extract dates, times, places, and other logistical information from unstructured text? https://www.quora.com/Natural-Language-Processing-What-APIs-and-libraries-can-extract-dates-times-places-and-other-logistical-information-from-unstructured-text

Fulltext Geocoding Versus Spatial Metadata for Large Text Archives: Towards a Geographically Enriched Wikipedia http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september12/leetaru/09leetaru.html

Character Extraction with Python and NLTK https://www.emilydaniels.com/2014/02/character-extraction-with-python-and-nltk/