[BangPypers] Work Shop on Python in Bangalore

2010-05-24 Thread Dattatreya Sharma
Dear Friends, Greetings from GuRu Prevails! GuRu Prevails is the only organization in India that offers training program in Machine Learning for MS aspirants and corporate employees. As an add on module we offer a 16 hours workshop on Python. The work-shop will be held at our training facility o

Re: [BangPypers] python for parsing

2010-05-24 Thread kunal ghosh
> > > Thanks Kunal , i am happy as well as sad , happy because my job has > become > > much simpler and sad because everytime i think of a novel (honeslty ) > idea > > .. i see someone else has already executed it .. :( > My intension of telling about the existing works was to let you know of the

Re: [BangPypers] python for parsing

2010-05-24 Thread Indudhar Devanath
On 24 May 2010 12:06, Rahul R wrote: > Thanks Kunal , i am happy as well as sad , happy because my job has become > much simpler and sad because everytime i think of a novel (honeslty ) idea > .. i see someone else has already executed it .. :( > > David Heinemeier Hansson once said that reuse i

Re: [BangPypers] extracting unicode text from pdfs

2010-05-24 Thread Eknath Venkataramani
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > You may want to try out pdfminer. Its very similar to xpdf in structure and > should give you the parsed data into unicode directly. > Tried but I got the same output as xpdf. I guess it's because of the point mentioned by Gora- 'you might n

Re: [BangPypers] extracting unicode text from pdfs

2010-05-24 Thread Eknath Venkataramani
Tried .. didn't work out well enough. The output is same as what I get out of xpdf On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > You may want to try out pdfminer. Its very similar to xpdf in structure and > should give you the parsed data into unicode directly. > > On Mon, May 24, 2010

Re: [BangPypers] extracting unicode text from pdfs

2010-05-24 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 24 May 2010 19:13:26 +0530 Eknath Venkataramani wrote: > I have around 45 pdfs to convert into raw text containing text in > _HINDI_ . When I use the xpdf package, the generated text is very > weird, so I'd like to write a program which would convert the pdf > text into Unicode text as it

Re: [BangPypers] extracting unicode text from pdfs

2010-05-24 Thread Dhananjay Nene
You may want to try out pdfminer. Its very similar to xpdf in structure and should give you the parsed data into unicode directly. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Eknath Venkataramani wrote: > I have around 45 pdfs to convert into raw text containing text in _HINDI_ . > When I use the xpdf pack

[BangPypers] extracting unicode text from pdfs

2010-05-24 Thread Eknath Venkataramani
I have around 45 pdfs to convert into raw text containing text in _HINDI_ . When I use the xpdf package, the generated text is very weird, so I'd like to write a program which would convert the pdf text into Unicode text as it is. The fonts used in the pdfs: name

Re: [BangPypers] python for parsing

2010-05-24 Thread Vishal
Hi Rahul, Not sure if you'd be interested, however, david beazly who was here a couple of weeks back, has a straight forward implementation of Lex and Yacc in Python named: PLY : http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/index.html See if this interests you. This might be easier for the porting part, and then add