/texttract

Dockerized version of the popular textract tool

Primary LanguageShell

General purpose text extraction

Description

Extract text from a multitude of filetypes (audio, images, gif, rich documents such as xls, pdf, pptx etc). Convieniently packaged in a docker image.

Usage

To use the docker image, first pull the image using

`docker pull jumpst3r/textextract

And then execute

docker run -it --rm -v /PATH_TO_FOLDER/input.pdf:/input/ -v /FULL_PATH_TO_OUTPUT_FOLDER/:/output/ jumpst3r/textextract sh /input/script.sh /input/input.pdf /output/

The input consists of:

A supported file type. See install.json for a subset of supported file types

The output consists of:

  • A text file containing the extracted text

The docker image is also compatible with DIVAServices a web-based framework providing streamlined access to DOI methods.

Sources / Comments

Original repo