Questions tagged [text-processing]
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Markdown formatter that converts inline links to reference-style links
I would like to find a CLI utility that replaces the inline links of a markdown file to reference-style links, a la this example.
On this website, I found a pandoc command that does something similar:
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OCR software/application that transforms hand-written code to digitally-written code
What I am looking for is a software/application that takes a source code written by hand on a piece of paper and converts it to digital code in a clean, tidy, and orderly fashion. I do not want just ...
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App or web-app to decode encoded strings (better than CyberChef's “magic”)
I often have strings that are encoded with unknown encoding methods that I need to decode. Note that these strings are not encrypted; they are simply encoded.
I typically use CyberChef for these ...
asked Oct 19 at 18:11
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Self-hosted OCR
I am looking for self-hosted OCR software.
Requirements:
Optical character recognition on images
Not just documents but also natural-scene-images
Linux Support
List item
Examples:
https://ocr.space/...
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Tool to sort the contents of a VCF file by individual vCards (contacts)
A VCF file contains multiple vCard (contact) structures.
Please recommend a gratis tool for Windows or Android that will sort a VCF so that the output VCF has each vCard ordered alphabetically by its ...
asked Aug 4 at 12:09
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Find two text strings within N lines
I am looking for a gratis Windows program that can take a standard windows text file and search for occurrences of two user provided strings within N lines of each other, where N is user specified.
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Text (numerical) recognition software for amateur laboratory use
I'm looking for a piece of software (or library in python, c++...) that could in general automatically recognize numbers displayed on multimeters' screens in lab setting. Given video file I want to ...
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Terminal-based text editor for Linux with few dependencies
I'm using an old(ish) SLES Linux machine on which there are some issues with vi which I won't go into. I want to use another text editor - but none is installed as part of the distribution, and I'm ...
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Editing text documents before feeding database
I hope this is the correct section for my question.
I need to paste 30 text files (they all have the same format, like 30 characters for the first column, 15 for the second one, and so on) one under ...
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Batch Find/Replace within text file with savable/editable replace lists/presets
I am looking for software for Windows that provides a lot of functionality for Find/Replace batch operations on text files in folders.
A key feature is the ability to create batch lists of find/...
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Is there an online tool that cuts off subdomains and leaves only domains?
Is there a tool to which I can give a list of path names (google.com, test.something.co.uk, bla.anothersomething.club, etc.) and it will give me a list of root domains (in this case google.com, ...
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Converting a TextBase Project RoadMap to Graphics
Please have a look at https://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy/class/draw. This site automatically draw UML graphics from text. This release you form using any graphical tools.
Now please have a look at ...
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Visual scripting alternatives but for text ( text node editor )?
I want to create tech document for my friend, and want to provide some logic structure. Is there any Visual Scripting alternatives but for text editing? Something like visual pseudo-scritping. Where I ...
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Tool to script simple find & replace for a fixed set of text strings
On a Mac:
Every month I collect lists of around 300-500 company names in Japanese that I need to translate into English. I tried scripting this with Applescript in Textwrangler, but this is hard to ...
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module or software to preprocess simple variable substitution for JSON files?
I'm taking my vscode theme settings and I'm breaking it out into a full fledged theme.
Themes are in JSON format.
I would also like to create a more unified color scheme. Let's say I tell my theme ...
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Doxygen for Protobuf files or similar tool with little modification to comment format?
I have been given a challenge for my first week at work as a graduate and I am stumped already, The company I work for uses google protobuf files - Grpc and I know extremely little about protobuf - ...
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Can I use Node.js for text analysis?
We have the transcript for millions of text files (range of a few terabytes). We want to make a statistic of what our users answered to a set of questions. We do not necessary look for natural ...
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File Data Processor
I have to process tons of text/html files. Im looking for a tool that helps me to create a graph with processing nodes in order to make transformations on this files. For instance:
- A node loads the ...
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Free API for handwritten OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
I wanted to know if there are any free APIs available for text recognition from a handwritten document. I looked in Google Vision API, Microsoft Cognitive API but all of the above are paid. So is it ...
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Utility to create word list from a document
I need a utility that would parse a document (.odt or .txt), creating a list of words used therein, preferably ignoring the most common words (a, the, of, etc.).
A bonus would be if it gave a count ...
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Library to answer the questions 'Are there any locations mentioned in a particular text? If so: which locations are mentioned?'
I need to answer those two questions:
Are there any locations (in the sense of place: "capital of France", "South of Spain", "London", "New Zealand", etc. ) mentioned in a particular text?
If so: ...
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Cheap or free convenient application for making subtitles?
I tried aegisub, but it was inconvenient: I can't control video playback with keyboard shortcuts and synchronization between subtitle sheet and video. It can be for any operating system (Windows, ...
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Web-based Grep app
I am looking for an application I can host at my house on one of my servers that allows me to grep large datasets.
I have roughly 10-15 TB of txt files. I am currently using a GUI-based grep ...
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Software to search for duplicate lines within a text file
I have a text file containing 20K URL's. Within the file, 1-2 blank lines are present between many of the URL's. I need to find all duplicate URL's within the file and remove them.
The order of ...
asked Apr 4 '19 at 17:53
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Formatting large amounts of differently structured ascii text snippets into a uniform format
we need a software recommendation for the task of formatting large amounts of differently structured ascii text snippets into a uniform format that looks good in html.
The text snippets can be plain ...
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Are the application for transcribing audio into subtitles?
There is such application as gTranscribe that allows you to play audio and type text into the text area below and it puts time stamp automatically at the and of each line. Are there something similar, ...
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Text/macro expansion program
I'm looking for a simple Windows program that lets me define some macro texts that are automatically expanded when I type. Just simply "replace this string with this string".
E.g. -abc- expands to ...
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Software that can convert large amount of data to md5 hash
Currently I have a 2gb database with approximately 100 million lines and I want to convert every single line to md5 hash is there a program that can do it relatively quick.
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Preprocessor for Windows, good for generating HTML files
I need a template engine (preprocessor) for Windows that allows me to define my own (very simple) language. I need it for generating html files. It should be able to make macro substitutions but also ...
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Text classification using Python
I am doing a text classification related task in Python using NLP and SkLearn.
I need to remove random words from my text. I know I can remove stop words and punctuation using nlp. But what I am ...
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How can I delete non-english words from text file?
I want to delete all words, which are not English, from the text file.
I have done some research about the topic on google and have found a python tool which is named pyenchant for this task. I have ...
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XML libraries for java
Please succintly summarize the licensing and vendor implementations available for:
XQuery
JAXP
XQJ
specific to Java and where the libraries can be found for build files.
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Copy & paste texts omitting leading/trailing white spaces
Looking for utility/macro/plugin to paste texts from clipboard omitting leading/trailing white spaces.
Couldn't find this feature in macros in PhraseExpress or utilities like PureText.
Thanks.
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WWW: Many pages to one?
We have a documentation/help system in the form of 'a lot of www pages (one-topic-per-page)'.
Is there any ready-to-go software/script able to change that docs to 'all-in-one-page' format?
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Utility to recursively process text file templates and fill in placeholders
I search for a tool that is / can:
gratis
free from dependencies (no scripting language interpreter needed, ...)
preferably a single binary
run on Linux, optionally Windows
traverse a (sub)directory ...
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Looking for text list merge program
I'm looking for a program that can combine several lists.
Must be Windows supported, completely free or freemium, has an interface and unicode supported. It should be able to add prefix, suffix and ...
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Headline Capitalization
Background
Developers write JIRA tickets; developers do not style the ticket items consistently. We'd like to present the ticket summaries to clients, but with a consistent format.
Problem
We're ...
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Language detection at shell command
I need to detect the language of a huge amount of files, and I was wondering if there is some tool which I could use in a way similar to this, in linux command shell:
langdetector filetodetect > ...
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Get difference of two regular literature texts (not source code), with markup on changes
How to get difference text of two ebooks converted to plain text?
They are both the same book but different editions, so much of text is exactly the same to within hyphenation and punctuation changes.
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Software to convert very, very large html file to markdown
I have a single 1.3gb html file that contains the entirety of the Encyclopedia Britannica. I want to convert it to markdown in a way that preserves subheadings, tables, and UTF-8 special characters.
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Textual authorship testing options?
There's a pretty remarkable piece of software called jstylo from Drexel University, but it appears to have been untouched for a couple of years.
Are there any comparable options to this that analyze ...
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Convert JSPWiki to XWiki
Background
Looking to convert a document written in JSPWiki format to a file written in any format supported by pandoc.
Requirements
Preferably CommonMark or basic HTML output.
No attachments.
No ...
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Is there a very simple version control tool that only uses a diff-based change log for a text file?
Parsing the change log and reconstructing an older version automatically is not a requirement. The only objective is to make everything I ever wrote and saved and potentially deleted searchable and ...
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Open source tool to extract text from developer file types
I would like to parse the text content from these developer file types and index them and make them available for my lucene search engine for search.
I would like to parse the text content from these ...
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Open source tool to do OCR
I would like to parse the text content (OCR) from these image file types and index them and make them available for my lucene search engine for search.
.ai .bmp .gif .jpeg .jpg .png .psd .ttf
Can ...
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What is the best open source tool to parse text content from files to make it available for search?
I would like to parse text content from any type of file to make it available for search. Say the file may be .txt, .docx - document type files or it may be an image, audio or video file.
I could ...
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Text file (log) viewer GUI with interactive coloring of multiple search patterns?
I am viewing text files (logs) with a massive ammount of data. I view them in a typical text editor like Scite or Geany, where the default view formatting is black letters on white background. What ...
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Program that sorts lines in a text file by number of occurences
I have a large text file with a lot of lines of terms. Some lines repeat themselves. I want a program that gives me the lines that appear most often in the entire document.
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Semantic Tagging and analysis or extraction of text (Windows/OS X)
I'm looking for a software to add semantic tags to a long, structured text, with the ability to search for, extract, maybe analyse these tags.
Specifically, the text is structured into chapters and ...
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Level, and center, scanned text documents
Looking for a program that can level and center the text in scanned pages. Scans are to .pdfs with occasional pictures but mostly text.
My example is the scanning of a paper that was not aligned when ...
