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extract text from any document. no muss. no fuss.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2014-08-04 · latest 2014-08-04

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  1. Hopefully it will be? There's a great suggestion to use tesseract-ocr to make this happen. https://github.com/deanmalmgren/textract/issues/16 If you have any other (better?) ways of doing this, feel free to add some comments on the issue…
    comment by deanmalmgren · 2014-08-04 · in Textract, a Python package for extracting text from any document
  2. Thanks for the suggestion. I wasn't familiar with ps2ascii and I just created an issue here https://github.com/deanmalmgren/textract/issues/25
    comment by deanmalmgren · 2014-08-04 · in Textract, a Python package for extracting text from any document
  3. …its worth, textract (python) also has ambitions of including OCR through the tesseract-ocr project https://github.com/deanmalmgren/textract/issues/16
    comment by deanmalmgren · 2014-08-04 · in Textract, a Python package for extracting text from any document
  4. …example of how you'd like to use metadata, please feel free to throw an issue on the issue tracker https://github.com/deanmalmgren/textract/issues/
    comment by deanmalmgren · 2014-08-04 · in Textract, a Python package for extracting text from any document