Benjamin

Many of the documents used for Natural Language Processing (NLP) today are in .pdf format. Reading the pdfs into Python, while not extremely difficult, is not as simple as typing pd.read_pdf(‘file_name.pdf’). Today I am going to provide you with the code which will allow you to not only read a .pdf file into Python but also a function you can create that utilizes regular expressions to find the metadata of your document.Photo by Dmitry Ratushny on UnsplashThe main Python library which will be discussed today is PyPDF2.…

It’s 1989, and over the course of a blazing Wiltshire summer, a series of mysterious and increasingly complex crop circles appear in the county’s ripening wheat fields. Combining precise geometry and motifs from eastern spirituality and Celtic mythology, they’re soon attracting international attention from the media, UFO enthusiasts, dowsers, exorcists and tourists.Benjamin Myers’s latest novel, The Perfect Golden Circle, is every bit as idiosyncratic as its subject matter, combining lyricism with comedy and themes that…