https://github.com/bauripalash/escraper

Scrap Email Addresses From PDFs and Photos! in C++ (Python was tooo easy to do)
https://github.com/bauripalash/escraper

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Scrap Email Addresses From PDFs and Photos! in C++ (Python was tooo easy to do)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bauripalash/escraper
• Owner: bauripalash
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-08-02T13:30:56.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-10-05T14:09:29.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T00:38:11.987Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: cpp, email-parsing, hacktoberfest, scraper
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 115 KB
• Stars: 14
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
![# Project X29 - Email Scraper](./media/banner.png)

#### Escraper : Fast Email Scraper from PDF and Photos in C++ (Python was too easy to do)

**If you like this project , show your support by donating or giving a 🌟 start to this repository**

### 🦋 What is this?

Escraper aka. Project X29 is an simple project to scrap email addresses from PDFs and Photos. Just Feed the Input File and get a output as a `.txt` file.

### 🦋 How to Use?

> ( Assume we have a input file called called `card.pdf` which is an business card an includes some email addresses which we want to extract.)

Execute this : 

```bash

$ escraper -p card.pdf

```

After this we will get a output file called `card.pdf.txt` which will contain all the email addresses present in `card.pdf`

### 🦋 Features:

* Extract emails from a pdf file:

```bash

$ escraper -p/--pdf FILENAME

```

* Extract emails from a pdf file:

```bash

$ escraper -i/--image FILENAME

```

* Choose custom output file:

```bash

$ escraper -o/--out OUTPUT

```

### 🔨 How to Build?

* Perquisites :

    * A C++ Compile

    ```bash

    sudo apt install build-essentials

    ```

    * ImageMagick Library

    ```bash

    sudo apt install graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat

    ```

    * Tesseract OCR Library

    ```bash

    sudo apt install tesseract-ocr libtesseract-dev libleptonica-dev

    ```

    * Make

    ```bash

    sudo apt install make

    ```

* Git Clone or Download this repo

```bash

git clone https://github.com/bauripalash/escraper

```

* `cd` into the project folder

```bash

cd escraper

```

` Make

```bash

make

```

* Now you'll have a binary called escraper

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