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AI promises to finally make public engagement meaningful. We put it to the test.

Everything you need to know about how we analyzed the 13,000+ comments submitted in the federal government’s request for ...
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Automating PDF to Excel conversion: How to use the Python library 'pdfplumber' that saved me from the despair of manual entry

Have you ever felt despair when someone said, 'Please retype that PDF into Excel'? It is a hellish task that takes hours of manual entry where even the slightest mistake is unacceptable. I will ...
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Easily Extract Text from PDFs with Python

Extracting text from PDF files is a task frequently required in data analysis and document processing. With Python, you can easily extract the contents of a PDF as text. In this article, we will ...
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How to use Python’s py launcher for Windows

The Windows version of the Python interpreter can be run from the command line the same way it’s run in other operating systems, by typing python or python3 at the prompt. But there’s a feature unique ...
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TypeError: argument of type 'PDFObjRef' is not iterable

awaiting-code-or-pdfIssues and PRs awaiting code and/or a PDF from issue/PR-authorIssues and PRs awaiting code and/or a PDF from issue/PR-authorbug /Users/caolf ...
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3 Python web frameworks for beautiful front ends

Have you ever wished you could generate interactive websites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while programming in nothing but Python? Here are three frameworks that do the trick. Python has long had a ...
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Doesn't work for rotated page

awaiting-code-or-pdfIssues and PRs awaiting code and/or a PDF from issue/PR-authorIssues and PRs awaiting code and/or a PDF from issue/PR-authorbug enhancement pdfplumber version: [e.g., 0.5.22] ...