alt Hacker News> normalizing document formats for analysis
What do you mean here? Normalizing it into ODF format? Does that limit which tools/libraries you can use to analyze it?
> normalizing document formats for analysis
What do you mean here? Normalizing it into ODF format? Does that limit which tools/libraries you can use to analyze it?
Normalize into flat xml that I could then parse in Nokogiri.
Edit for clarity: I am a Rubyist at heart so I reach for Ruby for almost all of my automation, ML, and even now AI stuff. Fro a very long time, I have been able to use CLI LibreOffice to do amazing things. It can read everything, even obscure formats by today's standards, going back into the 1990s. And then once in OpenOffice XML you have one target to parse in your scripting language of choice to do document analysis, data loss prevention detection, and more. All with a clean open source license with no server usage restrictions, unlike MS Office.