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Description

This is a simple libary to extract text from plaintext, .docx, .odt, .pdf and .rtf files.

Programming language: Go

License: The Unlicense

Tags: Text Processing Specific Formats Parsing Files Package PDF

Latest version: v0.1.5

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cat

This is a simple libary to extract text from plaintext, .docx, .odt, .pdf and .rtf files.

Install

go get -u github.com/lu4p/cat

Basic Usage

package main
import (
  "fmt"
  "github.com/lu4p/cat"
)

func main(){
  txt, _ := cat.File("filename")
  fmt.Println(txt)
}

*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the cat README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.

cat

Extract text from plaintext, .docx, .odt and .rtf files. Pure go.