Textract Plus

Extract text from any document with more power and a more wide extension scope. No more muss. No more fuss.

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How To Use

• Install Package -

pip install textract-plus

• Import and Extract:

  import textractplus as tp
  text=tp.process('/path/to/document')
  print(text)
  

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Currently supporting extensions

Textract Plus supports a growing and extended list of file types for text extraction than textract. If you don't see your favorite file type here, Please recommend other file types by either mentioning them on the issue tracker or by :ref:`contributing a pull request <contributing>`.

• .csv via python builtins
• .tsv and .tab via python builtins
• .doc via antiword
• .docx via python-docx2txt
• .eml via python builtins
• .epub via ebooklib
• .gif via tesseract-ocr
• .jpg and .jpeg via tesseract-ocr
• .json via python builtins
• .html and .htm via beautifulsoup4
• .mp3 via sox, SpeechRecognition, and pocketsphinx
• .msg via msg-extractor
• .odt via python builtins
• .ogg via sox, SpeechRecognition, and pocketsphinx
• .pdf via pdftotext (default) or pdfminer.six
• .png via tesseract-ocr
• .pptx via python-pptx
• .ps via ps2ascii
• .rtf via unrtf
• .tiff and .tif via tesseract-ocr
• .txt via python builtins
• .wav via SpeechRecognition and pocketsphinx
• .xlsx via xlrd
• .xls via xlrd

Extended support

• .dotx via docx2python
• .docm via docx2python
• .pptm via python-pptx

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