deanmalmgren/textract

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extract text from any document. no muss. no fuss.

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Dominant language: HTML
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 1, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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Suggestion: add WFGY Problem Map as RAG/OCR debugging resource Open

deanmalmgren/textract#554 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 22, 2026
Document titles Open

deanmalmgren/textract#530 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 9, 2024
`Couldn't open file` with special characters in filename Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#529 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 7, 2024
Can't process docx files even though docx2txt is installed Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#521 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2024
Encoding ignored Open

deanmalmgren/textract#519 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 29, 2024
pstotext Preventing Packaging Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#504 · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 29, 2024
Support for .one (OneNote) files Open

deanmalmgren/textract#475 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 21, 2023
progress bar for long documents Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#467 · Opened Jun 6, 2023
mp3 text extraction Exception - 5MB~ file Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#460 · Opened Apr 8, 2023
Textract.process returns empty bytes object for EPUBs from DBNL collection Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#455 · Opened Feb 1, 2023
FR: Make SpeechRecognition etc. large AI libs just "extra" dependencies. Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#451 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 23, 2022
Issues with textract.process while run within and executable created by pyinstaller Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#449 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 9, 2022
unsafe for multiprocessing? Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#440 · Opened Sep 21, 2022
text parsers doesn't support encodings other then 'utf-8' Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#426 · Opened Jun 30, 2022
Textract extracts different text accroding to the OS it operates on Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#423 · Opened Jun 17, 2022
Please add .jpx images support for textract Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#419 · Opened May 13, 2022
Environment Variable is set but still it can't read from the tessdata directory Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#404 · Opened Nov 15, 2021
ppt support Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#398 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 12, 2021
parse space different show between linux and mac Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#388 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 30, 2021
Truncated File error Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#373 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 19, 2021
Text is processed out of order with pdfminer Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#345 · Opened Jul 15, 2020
Textract fails on this specific attached page with a UnicodeDecodeError Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#338 · Opened May 30, 2020
UnicodeDecodeErrors Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#337 · 1 comment · Opened May 30, 2020
Different result compared to when extracting directly with pdftotext Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#330 · Opened Mar 22, 2020
epub parser: separate text blocks of logical elements by "Form Feed" Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#327 · Opened Mar 1, 2020
Pdfminer and Tesseract not found Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#321 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 4, 2020
Is there any chance to install this in AWS lambda ? Open

deanmalmgren/textract#317 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 27, 2019
recursion error Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#316 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 26, 2019
command line interface is broken on windows Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#313 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2019
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 40 Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#309 · 5 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Oct 19, 2019
Missing carriage returns in PDF Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#307 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2019
PDF extract failed! Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#248 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 26, 2018
PDF parser should fall back on Tesseract Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#244 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 23, 2018
ODT parser output doesn't include newlines Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#227 · Opened Apr 26, 2018
Markdown format not support Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#225 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 17, 2018
Couldn't able to read header and footer section of doc and docx Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#218 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2018
xml format not supported Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#211 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 26, 2018
extension recognition not working Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#210 · Opened Feb 26, 2018
UTF-8 encoded files not properly decoded Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#203 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 18, 2018
Process returns nothing but text is in stdout.txt Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#183 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 24, 2017
Epub to txt conversion triples text output occasionally Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#175 · Opened Sep 7, 2017
textract is fooled by files with wrong extensions Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#174 · Opened Sep 6, 2017
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 4796: character maps to <undefined> Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#164 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 10, 2017
On Windows, use of pdfminer results in "WindowsError: [Error 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application" Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#154 · 12 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2017
rtf encoding danish chars Open

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deanmalmgren/textract#151 · 9 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2017
Reconciling the textract MIT license with code components under *GPL Open

documentation

deanmalmgren/textract#120 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 19, 2016
Add support for more image types Open

enhancement

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deanmalmgren/textract#98 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 5, 2015
enable native command line arguments in pdftotext Open

feature request

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deanmalmgren/textract#96 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 5, 2015
fallback python-based .rtf extraction Open

enhancement

deanmalmgren/textract#88 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 23, 2015
create a debian package with all dependencies Open

cross-platform

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deanmalmgren/textract#83 · Opened Apr 28, 2015

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