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Text extraction is the task of automatically extracting structured information from unstructured and/or semi-structured machine-readable documents (text).

Text extraction is the task of automatically extracting structured information from unstructured and/or semi-structured machine-readable documents (text).

Text extraction mechanisms may vary depending on the context and the language applied. Approaches may vary from regular expressions to classifiers till more complex/custom models.

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Extract Text with its Font Details (Style,Size,color,Italic etc) from a PDF in Python

I am looking to Extract Text with its Font Details (Style,Size,color,Italic etc) from a PDF in Python. I need to extract text and its metadata for translation purpose.Can anyone suggest any libraries for the same.
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Not able to understand coordinate in extracted document using OCR engine tesseract

I have extracted a image document from tesseract and It has extracted successful. But I am not able to understand coordinate of extracted document. Problem description: - It showing coordinates but let me know that are these coordinates…
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Is there a way to use readability and python to extract just text, not HTML?

I need to extract pure text form a random web page at runtime, on the server side. I use Google App Engine, and Readability python port. There are a number of those. early version by gfxmonk, based on BeautifulSoup version by minvolai based on…
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Rule based PDF text extraction for verious bills and invoices

I have to extract text from invoices and bills pdf files The files layouts can get complex, though its mostly filled with tables. I've read a few dozens articles already about the pdf format, how easy it is for our brain to grasp it and how hard it…
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Using boilerpipe to extract non-english articles

I am trying to use boilerpipe java library, to extract news articles from a set of websites. It works great for texts in english, but for text with special characters, for example, words with accent marks (história), this special characters are not…
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Is there a boilerpipe port for .net?

Does anybody know a .net port for the boilerpipe library?
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How to extract text from table in image?

I have data which in a structured table image. The data is like below: I tried to extract the text from this image using this code: import pytesseract from PIL import Image value=Image.open("data/pic_table3.png") text =…
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How to skip the character causing UnicodeDecodeError: using textract like errors="replace"?

I am trying to convert all readable in a pdf file into a string using textract. It works for most of the files but in some it gives UnicodeDecodeError: I want to skip problematic characters. I have tried to find a way to solve it with…
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Extract pdf text within bounding box directly into python

I'm trying to extract the text of a pdf within a given bounding rectangle. I understand there are tools for pdf scraping such as pdfminer, pypdf, and pdftotext. I've experimented with all 3, and so far I've only gotten code for pdftotext to extract…
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Keyword/keyphrase extraction from text

I am working on a project where I need to extract "technology related keywords/keyphrases" from text. For example, my text is: "ABC Inc has been working on a project related to machine learning which makes use of the existing libraries for finding…
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How to install textract in python3

sudo python3 -m pip install textract sudo apt-get install textract pip install textract sudo apt-get install swig I want to install textract in python3 but it is not install proper way, it gives the following error. x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread…
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Apache PDFBox Remove Spaces between characters

We are using PDFBox to extract text from PDF's. Some PDF's text can't be extract correctly. The following image shows a part from the PDF as image: After text extraction we get the following text: 3, 8 5 EU R 1 Netto 38,50 EUR…
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Python pdftotext ShellError Using textract

When I run the below Python script on a directory that contains a PDF file, I keep getting this error: ShellError: The command pdftotext "path/to/pdf/title.pdf" - failed with exit code 1 ------------- stdout ------------- ------------- stderr…
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Extract part of string between two different patterns

I try to use stringr package to extract part of a string, which is between two particular patterns. For example, I have: my.string <- "nanaqwertybaba" left.border <- "nana" right.border <- "baba" and by the use of str_extract(string, pattern)…
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select HTML text element with regex?

I want to look for © in an HTML document, and basically get the entity the copyright is attributed to. The copyright line shows up a couple of different ways:

© 2011 The New York Times Company

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