auto-find-date-pdf 0.2.22

A simple lib to find dates from any txt/ pdf/ docx/ rtf source. For documentation see

Simple use Date and text parsing from pdf rtf and images (with use of call back function)

This is a simple package provided by Marvsai healthcare LTD. It can find any format regular dates in a str as python Datetime objects.

Easy to use method

def find_dates(file_contents: str):

  Find any dates in a large python string usually taken from a file or pdf

  Args:
      file_contents (str): The string in which to find any format of dates


  Returns:
      List[datetime.datetime]: A list of datetime objects the latest can be found using max()

Optimised replacement of multiple strings in a string

replace_multiple_strings(input_string, replacements_dict)

Replace multiple strings in the input string using a dictionary of replacement pairs.

Args:
    input_string (str): The string in which to replace the substrings.
    replacements_dict (dict): A dictionary of replacement pairs, where the keys are the
        substrings to be replaced and the values are the replacement strings.

Returns:
    str: The input string with all instances of the substrings replaced with their
        corresponding replacement strings.
"""

Easy to use extraction of text from PDF or RTF files:

def extract_rtf_pdf(name: str, get_ai_text:Callable=None)->str:

  Find text from pdf and rtf

  Args:
      name (str): The string in which to find any format of dates
      get_ai_text: call back function that can call google vision api or AWS or Azure equivalents for text extraction
      Called for images and image PDFs.

  Returns:
      List[datetime.datetime]: A list of datetime objects the latest can be found using max()
  """