DatExtractor 1.0.1
This package lets the users to extract date from the text. This package identifies the date component and extracts it.

DatExtractor - It is a very useful tool to extract data from text


DatExtractor - Extract date from text
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The `DatExtractor` module provides the most efficient way of 
extracting date from text in the required format you need, available in Python.

Installation
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`DatExtractor` can be installed from PyPI using `pip` (note that the package 
name is different from the importable name)::

    pip install DatExtractor

Download
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DatExtractor is available on PyPI
https://pypi.org/project/DatExtractor/1.0/

The documentation is hosted at: https://datextractor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/


Code
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The code and issue tracker are hosted on GitHub:
https://github.com/subbu-art/DatExtractor

Features
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* This Package help you to extract date from the text.
* You can get the date in what ever format you actually want it.
* Currently the package can handle formats seperated by [/.-]. 
* Generic parsing of dates in almost any string format.
* You can extract multiple dates as well and you can use it as per the requirement.

Quick example
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Here's a snapshot, just to give an idea about the power of the
package. For more examples, look at the documentation.

Suppose you want to extract date from a text. you need to provide the 
text to the function as an argument. the default format of 
date you get is (mm/dd/yyyy). However you can modify the date format by 
passing the date format argument, so that you get the date in expected format.:


from DatExtractor import date_parser
date_parser("Please extract date:- 29/10/2020.")
['10/29/2020']
date_parser("Please extract date:- 29/10/2020.","%Y/%d/%m")
['2020/29/10']
date_parser("Please extract dates:- 29/10/2020, 12/21/2018","%d/%Y/%m")
['29/2020/10','21/2018/12']

Author
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The DatExtractor module was written by Sri Phani Subramanyam subbu27498@gmail.com in 2021.

It is maintained by:

* Sri Phani Subramanyam subbu27498@gmail.com 2021-Present
  
Contact
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For queries please contact subbu27498@gmail.com. 

License
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Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. https://fsf.org/
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. GNU General Public License v3.0 https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/#>.