Is there a tool that will give you a list of all the proper names in a document?

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Barb D

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If not, I'll get my son to write one. If there is, I won't waste his time. :)

What I'm looking for is something that will take a document and read each word, determine if it is a proper name, and if so put it in a list. If it comes across the word again it will add one to the number for that name.
 

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You could probably do something with Regular Expressions, or by comparing all words with a list of known names. Neither would be perfect. No list could be complete, and any other method would scoop up capitalized words that were not proper names. Looks like a job for Super Programmer.
 
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