aTXT 1.0.4

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• Author: Jonathan Prieto

• Email: prieto.jona@gmail.com

• Notes: Have feedback? Please send me an email. This project is in development.

Requirements

This software is available thank to others open sources projects. The following list itemizes some of those

• PySide (GUI lib)

• Tessaract OCR

• xpdf binaries (a option to process pdf)

• lxml (doc files)

• scandir (trasversal folder more easy and fast) (it could be need to compiled from source)

• pdfminer

• docx

Installing

Please before continue with installation process, make sure that the requirements listed above are sucessful installed.

pip install aTXT

Usage

aTXT --help

Console shows:

A friendly Extractor of Text for Data Mining

Usage:
    aTXT
    aTXT -i
    aTXT <file> [-v|--verbose] [-uo] [--to <to>]
    aTXT [--from <from>] [--to <to>] <file>... [-uo] [-v|--verbose]
    aTXT --path <path> --depth <depth> [--to <to>] [-v|--verbose]
            [-a|--all] [-p|--pdf] [-d|--doc] [-x|--docx] [-t|--dat] [-uo]
    aTXT [-h|--help]

Arguments:
    <file>            If <from> is none, file should be in current directory.
    --path <path>     Process the folder with path <path> and all files inside.

General Options:
    -i                Launch the (GUI) Graphical Interface.
    --from <from>     Process files from path <from>. [default: ./]
    --to <to>         Save all (*.txt) files to path <to> if <file> appears. [default: ./]
    --depth <depth>   Depth for trasvering path using depth-first-search
                      for --path option. [default: 1]
    -a, --all         Convert all allowed formats (pdf, docx, doc, dat).
    -p, --pdf         Convert files with extension (*.pdf|*.PDF).
    -x, --docx        Convert files with extension (*.docx|*.DOCX).
    -d, --doc         Convert files with extension (*.doc|*.DOC).
    -t, --dat         Convert files with extension (*.dat|*.DAT).
    -u                Use uppercase for all text processed.
    -o                Overwrite if *.txt file version yet exists.
    -h, --help        Print this help.
    -V, --version     Print current version installed.
    -v, --verbose     Print error messages.

Work inside graphical interface:

aTXT --i

Colaborating

Do you wanna colaborate with me? send me a email to prieto.jona@gmail.com or just make a pull request in the github repository.

I need some help to write testing routines for a lack of time.