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…
Command line arguments are the string of data and flags that are passed into a python script for execution to change behavior. You leverage the built-in sys module to get access to the sys.argv list. python example.py my name is david Number of arguments: 5 Argument List: [‘example.py’, ‘my’, ‘name’, ‘is’, ‘david’] The built-in getopt module can help parse command…