Apache Tika has worked well for me in the past, ended up running it on an AWS Lambda https://tika.apache.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

If you accept running Java, the Apache Tika is extremely good at parsing content (https://tika.apache.org/). - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

Apache Tika can spit out text from lots of formats. I've used it with grep (or rg) to make a small scale searching of local folders. Tika does a really good job at OCR for finding if text is in a file. Source: about 1 year ago

Https://tika.apache.org Meta data from things. Source: over 1 year ago

At my previous job we had the same problem which we solved by using Tika. We called it on the server along with other stuff, but there is also a Python binding. Source: almost 2 years ago

In my day job[0], I talk to a lot of start-up ventures about blockchain. Only one was honest enough to say they were only using it because, at the time, it was easier to get funding. [0]: https://hyperledger.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Ethereum is not just currency at its core, its a smart contract platform which is used to implement distributed consensus, where each participating party sign the result, with their consensus algorithm. Currency is a side effect. You can just remove the entire ETH/gas dependency on the base, to use the platform as a distributed ledger between all the participants. And use another kind of consensus algo(proof of... Source: almost 3 years ago