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    Thread: identify not white pixels in bmp
Post: RE: identify not white pixels in bmp

Hi, Line 10: you seem to write the first element i[0] with a different format than the other elements. line 10: if pixels are white, their RGB sum is = 765, it's ieasier to find the sum, no need for "...
DPaul General Coding Help 5 198 Sep-24-2023, 12:50 PM
    Thread: Reading in of line not working?
Post: RE: Reading in of line not working?

(Sep-19-2023, 08:01 AM)garynewport Wrote: Which now means I cannot read in the older files.Hi, I once had that problem, and I remember that there is a module called "chardet" which tells you the typ...
DPaul General Coding Help 2 273 Sep-19-2023, 02:04 PM
    Thread: more pdf questions
Post: more pdf questions

Hi, in my efforts to save server space, I have a "how to" problem. Using Fitz (pyMuPdf), I can : open a pdf and find the page I need (page_nr) file_handle = fitz.open(pdf_path) page = file_handle[p...
DPaul Bar 0 188 Sep-15-2023, 07:31 AM
    Thread: pdf question
Post: RE: pdf question

(Sep-14-2023, 04:34 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: You can get the entire Acrobat SDK here.How can a simple thing like a pdf, have a reference guide of 756 pages ? **confused** Paul
DPaul Bar 7 419 Sep-15-2023, 05:39 AM
    Thread: pdf question
Post: RE: pdf question

(Sep-13-2023, 11:15 AM)Larz60+ Wrote: I think you can be comfortable that the format will remain for a long time to come.That is what I wanted to hear **smile** In fact, you could say that about t...
DPaul Bar 7 419 Sep-14-2023, 05:45 AM
    Thread: pdf question
Post: RE: pdf question

(Sep-12-2023, 08:54 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: pdf's are a pain in the butt, mainly because of all the formats that may be contained inside,Every day I deal with pdfs, indeed with many different things insid...
DPaul Bar 7 419 Sep-13-2023, 05:59 AM
    Thread: pdf question
Post: pdf question

Hi, When documents are scanned, using a "bulk" scanner, the result is either a bunch of tifs or pngs. Those image formats are percieved as being "future developments safe". But, for some types of doc...
DPaul Bar 7 419 Sep-12-2023, 08:46 AM
    Thread: Using pyodbc&pandas to load a Table data to df
Post: RE: Using pyodbc&pandas to load a Table data to df

To what type of database are you trying to connect with pyodbc? (name + extension) - version Paul
DPaul General Coding Help 3 330 Sep-09-2023, 09:28 AM
    Thread: Program to check whether a number is palindrome or not
Post: RE: Program to check whether a number is palindrom...

(Sep-07-2023, 01:43 PM)PythonBoy Wrote: I am interested in this method also. Could you please explain why did we write y = x[::-1]? Look here: https://www.guru99.com/1-in-python.html Paul
DPaul Homework 18 918 Sep-07-2023, 02:47 PM
    Thread: Program to check whether a number is palindrome or not
Post: RE: Program to check whether a number is palindrom...

Hi, No loops allowed ? then try: x = '1234321' y = x[::-1] Is y == x ? Paul
DPaul Homework 18 918 Sep-07-2023, 01:33 PM
    Thread: sqlite3 Conn Insert Value Error
Post: RE: sqlite3 Conn Insert Value Error

Without having executed the code, I would look into line 4 (conn.execute(...)) You are using double quotes for both string and value info. When I do that, python does not like it. Test it : Use single...
DPaul General Coding Help 3 292 Sep-04-2023, 04:57 PM
    Thread: Unidecode issue
Post: RE: Unidecode issue

(Sep-03-2023, 06:20 PM)Gribouillis Wrote: Use re.sub() for exampleI thought I had to fiddle around with unidecode parameters, but this is nice and concise. Thanks again, Paul
DPaul Bar 5 530 Sep-04-2023, 06:23 AM
    Thread: Unidecode issue
Post: RE: Unidecode issue

(Sep-02-2023, 08:45 AM)Gribouillis Wrote: Which translation do you want insteadOK, there is a hidden meaning , only known to genealogists I suppose. 148 is the folio nr. r° is recto , and... v° mean...
DPaul Bar 5 530 Sep-03-2023, 04:55 PM
    Thread: Unidecode issue
Post: RE: Unidecode issue

(Sep-02-2023, 08:45 AM)Gribouillis Wrote: Which translation do you want insteadFair question. Let me do some research, because I have to find out if the 'degrees' symbol was meant to be there and ha...
DPaul Bar 5 530 Sep-03-2023, 06:07 AM
    Thread: Unidecode issue
Post: Unidecode issue

Hi, In some pdfs I encounter references to the original parish register, like so: ref = ' RP 477; p. 148 r° ' I perform unidecode on all strings in the document : fieldUni = unidecode.unidecode(field)...
DPaul Bar 5 530 Sep-02-2023, 06:42 AM
    Thread: txt to image
Post: RE: txt to image

(Aug-25-2023, 09:02 AM)Gribouillis Wrote: This should workYes , it does work ! The records are actually official wedding records, with 98 fields ! (people, places, parrish, dates, witness, occupatio...
DPaul Bar 2 523 Aug-26-2023, 06:03 AM
    Thread: txt to image
Post: txt to image

Hi, Sometimes I am handed old files that I cannot OCR, but I can read them via a backdoor. Simplified, I end up with a few 100.000 very small txt files, each describing a person, with dates, places et...
DPaul Bar 2 523 Aug-25-2023, 08:11 AM
    Thread: executable for mac
Post: RE: executable for mac

(Aug-14-2023, 08:19 AM)snippsat Wrote: So you run same code with Pyinstaller,just that need to run code on a Mac OS. Then will generate an stand alone executable for Mac. Oh, I see ...! I'll ask one...
DPaul Bar 2 491 Aug-14-2023, 08:46 AM
    Thread: executable for mac
Post: executable for mac

Hi, An app that has been developed for windows, has attracted the interest of some mac users (yes they exist!) Instead of doing pyinstaller ... etc, to create an .exe file, what module would be reco...
DPaul Bar 2 491 Aug-14-2023, 05:58 AM
    Thread: doing string split with 2 or more split characters
Post: RE: doing string split with 2 or more split charac...

How to Disable or Enable Grayscale Mode in Windows 10/11 ? Many tuts on youtube... Paul
DPaul General Coding Help 22 1,192 Aug-10-2023, 03:40 PM

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