Global animal disease outbreak detection and monitoring rely on official sources, such as intergovernmental organizations, as well as digital media and other unofficial outlets. Manually extracting relevant information from unofficial sources is time-consuming. The Platform for Automated extraction of animal Disease Information from the web (PADI-web) is an automated biosurveillance system devoted to online news source monitoring for the detection of emerging/new animal infectious diseases by the French Epidemic Intelligence System.

This tool is mainly developed for animal disease surveillance but a new version of PADI-web is dedicated for plant health to address the One Health context.