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| textract | best-of-python | |
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| 4 | 5 | |
| 3,784 | 3,409 | |
| - | 0.9% | |
| 3.5 | 7.8 | |
| 17 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| HTML | Python | |
| MIT License | Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 |
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textract
- How to give a file path to a file parser when you only have an HTTPRequest?
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pdf2doi : A python library to retrieve the DOI (or other identifiers) from a pdf file
Scan the text inside the .pdf file, and check for any string that matches the pattern of a DOI or an arXiv ID. The text is extracted with PyPDF2 and textract.
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I am a proficient Python coder whose learning has plateaued. Any really useful libraries I should look into learning? Taking recommendations.
And here are some libraries that might pique your interest although they don't strictly answer your question: - tqdm for adding a progress bar on for loops (it comes with useful information like iteration per second and estimated time needed to finish) - alive_progress adds a progress bar like tqdm, but it works even with generators and while loops which I don't think tqdm does. -timebudget, with just a decorator as soon as a function is completed it prints the time taken to execute it - send2trash for sending files to the trash bin instead of permanently deleting them - keyboard for sending keyboard inputs or check if a key is pressed - mouse same as keyboard but with mouse buttons - textract for extracting text from many types of file with a single interface. It supports documents, powerpoint presentations, csv, excels, images, gifs, audio, and many more
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Textract: Extract text from a large variety of file formats
Huh. Must have made a mistake posting the original link. Anyway, this is what I meant: https://textract.readthedocs.io
best-of-python
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Which not so well known Python packages do you like to use on a regular basis and why?
You may be interested in this best-of-python list on github.
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I am a proficient Python coder whose learning has plateaued. Any really useful libraries I should look into learning? Taking recommendations.
I suggest looking at this and this github links which group many of the most used/useful python libraries by their category of use.
- ml-tooling/best-of-python A ranked list of awesome Python open-source libraries & tools. Updated weekly.
- Best of Python
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[P] best-of-ml-python: A ranked list of awesome machine learning Python libraries
best-of-python: General overview of Python libraries & tools
What are some alternatives?
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
pymunk - Pymunk is a easy-to-use pythonic 2d physics library that can be used whenever you need 2d rigid body physics from Python
newspaper - newspaper3k is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:
Box - Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access
python-goose - Html Content / Article Extractor, web scrapping lib in Python
fastapi-featureflags - FastAPI Feature Flags
html2text - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
glom - ☄️ Python's nested data operator (and CLI), for all your declarative restructuring needs. Got data? Glom it! ☄️
python-readability - fast python port of arc90's readability tool, updated to match latest readability.js!
gTTS - Python library and CLI tool to interface with Google Translate's text-to-speech API
sumy - Module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
chepy - Chepy is a python lib/cli equivalent of the awesome CyberChef tool.