If you work with strings in your Python scripts and you're writing obscure logic to process them, then you need to look into regex in Python. It lets you describe patterns instead of writing ...

In its hurried attempt to release all the Epstein files in compliance with federal law, the Justice Department is coming under fire for making several redaction-related errors. One of the latest ...

Windows 11 File Explorer drag and drop gives you a simple way to organize files without extra menus. You can move items, copy them, or create shortcuts with these steps. You can move or copy items ...

Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go. By J. D. Biersdorfer I write the monthly Tech Tip column, which is devoted to ...

PDF files have become a staple of our daily digital lives, both at work and at home. They work seamlessly across operating systems and devices, and they couldn’t be easier to create and share. Every ...

Normally, WinRAR is supposed to extract files from an archive to the user's specified path. But through the flaw, it looks like a booby-trapped file can extract the data to a hacker-selected path, ...

LangExtract lets users define custom extraction tasks using natural language instructions and high-quality “few-shot” examples. This empowers developers and analysts to specify exactly which entities, ...

Security researchers say Chinese authorities are using a new type of malware to extract data from seized phones, allowing them to obtain text messages — including from chat apps such as Signal — ...

This project demonstrates how to extract textual content from PDF files using Python and the PyPDF2 library. The extracted text is saved to a .txt file for further use such as document analysis, NLP ...