deanmalmgren/textract

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A Python library that extracts text from virtually any document format (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, HTML, images, and more) through a simple unified interface. It wraps various parsers and external tools so users can get plain text from documents with a single function call.

Use cases

• extract text from pdf files in python
• convert word documents to plain text
• parse resumes from pdfs
• bulk extract text from many document formats
• get text out of powerpoint or html files
• preprocess documents for text mining

When to choose

• you need one uniform API for many document formats
• you want a quick command-line or Python way to pull text from files
• you are building a text-mining or NLP pipeline over mixed document types

When to avoid

• you need high-fidelity layout or table extraction from complex PDFs
• you want a pure-Python solution without system dependencies like antiword or pdftotext
• the project's maintenance pace is too slow for your production needs

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

parser pdf ocr nlp file-system files pdf data-science python cli cross-platform text-extraction document-parsing docx pdf-to-text natural-language-processing

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