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Escraper : Fast Email Scraper from PDF and Photos in C++ (Python was too easy to do)

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🦋 What is this?

Escraper aka. Project X29 is an simple project to scrap email addresses from PDFs and Photos. Just Feed the Input File and get a output as a .txt file.

🦋 How to Use?

( Assume we have a input file called called card.pdf which is an business card an includes some email addresses which we want to extract.)

Execute this :

$ escraper -p card.pdf

After this we will get a output file called card.pdf.txt which will contain all the email addresses present in card.pdf

🦋 Features:

• Extract emails from a pdf file:

$ escraper -p/--pdf FILENAME

• Extract emails from a pdf file:

$ escraper -i/--image FILENAME

• Choose custom output file:

$ escraper -o/--out OUTPUT

🔨 How to Build?

• Perquisites :
  • A C++ Compile

  sudo apt install build-essentials
  

  • ImageMagick Library

  sudo apt install graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat
  

  • Tesseract OCR Library

  sudo apt install tesseract-ocr libtesseract-dev libleptonica-dev
  

  • Make

  sudo apt install make
  

• Git Clone or Download this repo

git clone https://github.com/bauripalash/escraper

• cd into the project folder

cd escraper

` Make

make

• Now you'll have a binary called escraper

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