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kalkin on Aug 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Textract, a Python package for extracting text fro...

I have a little shell script which tries to do basically this:

https://gist.github.com/djudd/1402751e2928cb8ac788

It tries either abiword or OpenOffice/LibreOffice for filetypes other than pdf, ps, and txt, which works pretty decently for doc, docx, ppt, etc.

One file type here that textract folks might want to add is Postscript.

deanmalmgren on Aug 4, 2014 [–]

Thanks for the suggestion. I wasn't familiar with ps2ascii and I just created an issue here https://github.com/deanmalmgren/textract/issues/25

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