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Created July 21, 2017 08:54
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give_me_text.py
import requests
def pdf_to_text(pdf_file):
'''
See http://givemetext.okfnlabs.org/#api for a description of the API.
'''
r = requests.put('http://beta.offenedaten.de:9998/tika', open(pdf_file, 'rb'))
r.raise_for_status()
r.encoding = 'utf-8'
return r.text
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