GROBID (or Grobid, but not GroBid nor GroBiD) means GeneRation Of BIbliographic Data.
GROBID is a machine learning library for extracting, parsing and re-structuring raw documents such as PDF into structured XML/TEI encoded documents with a particular focus on technical and scientific publications. First developments started in 2008 as a hobby, following a suggestion by Laurent Romary (Inria, France). In 2011, the tool has been made available in open source. Work on GROBID has been steady as a side project since the beginning and is expected to continue as such, facilitated in particular to the continuous support of Inria.