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Extracting Table Data From PDFs with OCR
PDF is the ideal format for things you don’t want anybody to read. Kidding.. sort of.. I am a bit biased against PDFs. Though I reluctantly admit their usefulness in a very few situations, mostly they’re just annoying. For a … Continue reading
Ranking Blogs by Readability
Further proof that I’m a dork: this afternoon, instead of working on my apps, I was screwing around with pydot and matplotlib making visualizations of user engagement (on another blog). At one point it occurred to me that it might … Continue reading
More Reasons I Love Python
I was cleaning up some folders the other day at work where the files had been named using one of several naming schemes (or a few with no particular scheme at all). After brief consideration, I decided to do the … Continue reading
Python, PIL and Pretty Polaroids
I suspect that by now everyone and their grandmother has written a script to convert photos so they look like Polaroids. Yesterday I spent a slow morning at work replacing all our slideshows (which used a super-ugly Flash control) with … Continue reading
Fetching Android Market Stats with Python, MozREPL and BeautifulSoup
A few weeks ago I was quite keen on the idea of gathering stats and creating charts to track the popularity of my Android apps. Alas, despite digging around in various packages and experimenting with cURL, I could never seem … Continue reading
The Amazing World of COM
COM is one of those things that I’d heard about but never really needed. Well yesterday I stumbled on a script for converting Word documents to PDF using COM and that got me thinking — “Can I save myself TONS … Continue reading