Here's the comment: "Its very similar to Apache Tika (which I didn't know about until yesterday), but I think it is different in at least two important ways.

Here's the comment: "Its very similar to Apache Tika (which I didn't know about until yesterday), but I think it is different in at least two important ways. "1. The intention of textract is to provide many possible ways to extract text from any document, provided words appear in the correct order in the text output. By being method agnostic, its possible to use different parsing techniques in different situations. Here's more on that philosophy http://textract.readthedocs.or.. http://textract.readthedocs.or... and, to be fair, I'm not sure that Tika's philosophy differs in any meaningful way on this. "2. Another subtle difference is that textract is written in python, which is a language that is used by nearly all data people that I know. Since the intent is to be a preprocessing framework for natural language processing, I wanted it to be as maintainable by the community as possible."