Proposal: textract

[tfeldmann]

Project Proposal

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Project Details

textract

Project Description

Textract is a small utility which extracts text from various document formats. It has > 100k downloads / month and is well tested and documented, just needs some love in form of dependency updates.

The maintainer @deanmalmgren seems to like the idea:
deanmalmgren/textract#498

Project Leads

No idea, I'm new to the jazzband orga.

Confirmation of Guidelines

Please confirm the following:

• I am the project owner, or have permission from the project owner, to request a transfer.

• This project is a viable candidate for Jazzband.

• This project fulfills the documentation requirements.

• This project is tested.

• I am happy to adopt Jazzband's code of conduct in this project.

• I am happy to include Jazzband's contributing guidelines in this project.

(Only @deanmalmgren can decide on the last two)

[deanmalmgren]

@tfeldmann I can confirm those last two check boxes.

• I am happy to adopt Jazzband's code of conduct in this project.

• I am happy to include Jazzband's contributing guidelines in this project.

I just merged a PR in to textract this morning to update the CONTRIBUTING guidelines and add the JazzBand badge to the docs. What's next to fully migrate this over to the jazzband org?

[tfeldmann]

Ping @jazzband/roadies

[levente-daczo]

As a user of textract, I'd like to bring to everyone's attention a recent issue. Until recently, only a deprecation warning was shown when using textract, but since the release of pip 24.1, there have been compatibility issues that have impacted CI/CD processes. Textract is now incompatible with the latest pip version, requiring adjustments in CI/CD pipelines to ensure the pip installed is older than 24.1.

Could this compatibility issue be prioritized in the migration process to ensure a seamless transition for all users relying on the latest pip version?

Ping @jazzband/roadies for visibility and assistance.

[deanmalmgren]

As textract's creator, I would be so grateful to have it fall under jazzband's care. My work has dramatically shifted away from text analysis and I've been trying to find a new maintainer for years. If there's anything else I can offer to bring this under your care, please let me know