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DatExtractor - It is a very useful tool to extract data from text

DatExtractor - Extract date from text

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Read the documentation at https://datextractor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

The DatExtractor module provides the most efficient way of extracting date from text in the required format you need, available in Python.

Installation

DatExtractor can be installed from PyPI using pip (note that the package name is different from the importable name):

pip install DatExtractor

Download

DatExtractor is available on PyPI https://pypi.org/project/DatExtractor/1.0/

The documentation is hosted at: https://datextractor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Code

The code and issue tracker are hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/subbu-art/DatExtractor

Features

  • This Package help you to extract date from the text.

  • You can get the date in what ever format you actually want it.

  • Currently the package can handle formats seperated by [/.-].

  • Generic parsing of dates in almost any string format.

  • You can extract multiple dates as well and you can use it as per the requirement.

Quick example

Here’s a snapshot, just to give an idea about the power of the package. For more examples, look at the documentation.

Suppose you want to extract date from a text. you need to provide the text to the function as an argument. the default format of date you get is (mm/dd/yyyy). However you can modify the date format by passing the date format argument, so that you get the date in expected format.:

Author

The DatExtractor module was written by Sri Phani Subramanyam subbu27498@gmail.com in 2021.

It is maintained by:

Contact

For queries please contact subbu27498@gmail.com.

License

Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. https://fsf.org/ Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. GNU General Public License v3.0 https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/ .

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