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Mastering PDF and Word Document Data Extraction with Python and PowerShell
In this tutorial, David Shapiro walks us through the essential techniques for scraping and converting data from PDFs and Word documents—a critical skill in the age of big data, especially when working with large language models (LLMs). Recognizing the common format of data sources, he offers practical, straightforward scripts to quickly transform these files into plain text, making them ready for further analysis or AI-driven processing.