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• type VerifierBHL

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type VerifierBHL

type VerifierBHL interface {
	// Reset removes saved data from the previous verification.
	Reset() error

	// Verify method organizes names detected in BHL, verifies them against
	// many scientific name databases, and returns reconciliation/resolution
	// results.
	Verify() error

	// ExtractUniqueNames runs after name detection is finished. It goes through
	// the detected names and saves the unique list off all names, their odds,
	// and the number of their occurrences.
	ExtractUniqueNames() error
}

VerifierBHL interface provides reconciliation and resolution of scientific names. Reconciliation matches name-string to all found lexical variants of the string. Resolution uses information in taxonomic databases such as Catalogue of Life to determing currently accepted name according to the database.