Quick blog post on how to extract text from an image, pdf, word doc, excel spreadsheet and more using Python and the textract library. If you haven’t already, jump into the various other blog posts on Python on the blog here to get a better understanding of the language. For this solution, let’s start by creating a new directory and…
There’s one special comment called a ‘shebang’ that python scripts can start #! /usr/bin/env python3 Having this source code allows you execute the python file. First you need to make the file executable with the following chmod +x example.py to allow it to be invoked from command line without having to specify the interpreter to run it. If you have…
Cron is an incredible scheduler that is extremely versatile with a powerful scheduling engine and precise timing capability, but it’s typical run from a server’s root OS or container image. You could package a linux container with the cronjob task and a shell script as shown at the end of this post OR you can build your own python scheduled…