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Python Automation Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jaime Buelta
Book Image

Python Automation Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jaime Buelta

Overview of this book

In this updated and extended version of Python Automation Cookbook, each chapter now comprises the newest recipes and is revised to align with Python 3.8 and higher. The book includes three new chapters that focus on using Python for test automation, machine learning projects, and for working with messy data. This edition will enable you to develop a sharp understanding of the fundamentals required to automate business processes through real-world tasks, such as developing your first web scraping application, analyzing information to generate spreadsheet reports with graphs, and communicating with automatically generated emails. Once you grasp the basics, you will acquire the practical knowledge to create stunning graphs and charts using Matplotlib, generate rich graphics with relevant information, automate marketing campaigns, build machine learning projects, and execute debugging techniques. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in identifying monotonous tasks and resolving process inefficiencies to produce superior and reliable systems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
14
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15
Index

Reading PDF files

A common format for documents is PDF (Portable Document Format). It started as a format to describe a document for any printer, so PDF is a format that ensures that the document will be printed exactly as shown. It has become a powerful standard for sharing documents, especially documents that are final and intended to be read-only.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we are going to use the PyPDF2 module. We need to add it to our virtual environment:

$ echo "PyPDF2==1.26.0" >> requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

In the GitHub directory Chapter03/documents, we have prepared two documents, document-1.pdf and document-2.pdf, to use in this recipe. Note they contain mostly Lorem Ipsum text, which is just placeholder.

Lorem Ipsum text is commonly used in design to show text without needing to create the content before the design. You can learn more about it here: https://loremipsum.io/.

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