Re^2: Module to extract text from HTML

And here is the long-winded road of using the mech to save to PDF and then use pdftotext (linux command line) to extract the text (all mixed up and good luck):

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my $pdf_data = $mech->content_as_pdf( format => 'A0' );
open(my $fh, '>:raw', 'the.pdf') or die $!;
print $fh $pdf_data;
close $fh;
`pdftotext 'the.pdf'`;
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Note that 'A0' paper size ...

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Re^3: Module to extract text from HTML by afoken (Chancellor) on Feb 28, 2024 at 19:41 UTC
And here is the long-winded road of using the mech to save to PDF and then use pdftotext I'm still waiting for someone to suggest printing out, scanning back in, doing OCR, and have an AI fix the OCR errors. ;-) Also, no traces of "just use a regex" so far. Which is really good. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re^4: Module to extract text from HTML by bliako (Abbot) on Feb 29, 2024 at 17:35 UTC
I am surprised nobody has mentioned that this is an XY problem (X=I want to extract text from html, Y=I want to extract organisation description text from html. XY problem, XY solutions.	[reply]