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Import Images and/or PDF Files

Open rdifrango opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

My wife has a ton of hand written and/or printed recipes that aren't in one of the traditional sites so I'd like the ability to be able to import either a PDF or image that I've scanned in.

rdifrango avatar Jun 27 '22 19:06 rdifrango

Thanks for the idea! 🙏. I, too, have thought about this and I am currently transcribing them by hand from scanned images.

nicholaswilde avatar Jun 27 '22 20:06 nicholaswilde

Hopefully this is helpful, but here's a good break-down of the existing PDF libraries for Python:

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-extract-text-from-pdf-245482a96de7

rdifrango avatar Jun 27 '22 20:06 rdifrango

And this seems like a related approach, by scanning an image file:

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-extract-text-from-images-with-python-db9b87fe432b

rdifrango avatar Jun 27 '22 20:06 rdifrango