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Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot)

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Date Fri, 24 May 2013 15:41:27 -0400
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On 05/24/2013 01:32 PM, logan.c.graham@gmail.com wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm learning Python

Welcome.

> and I'm experimenting with different projects -- I like learning by doing. I'm wondering if you can help me here:
>
>na
>
> What this is is a publicly-accessible webpage

No, it's just a jpeg file, an image.

> that's a simple database of people who have used the website. Ideally what I'd like to end up with is an excel spreadsheet with data from the columns #fb, # vids, fb sent?, # email tm.
>
> I'd like to use Python to do it -- crawl the page and extract the data in a usable way.
>

But there's no page to crawl.  You may have to start by finding an ocr 
to interpret the image as characters.  Or find some other source for 
your data.

> I'd love your input! I'm just a learner.
>


-- 
DaveA

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Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) logan.c.graham@gmail.com - 2013-05-24 10:32 -0700
  Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-24 15:41 -0400
  RE: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-25 02:36 +0300
    Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-05-25 18:33 -0700
      Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) logan.c.graham@gmail.com - 2013-05-27 17:58 -0700
        RE: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-28 04:21 +0300
        RE: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Phil Connell <pconnell@gmail.com> - 2013-05-28 07:40 +0100
  Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-24 21:16 -0400
  Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-25 13:22 +1000
    Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) logan.c.graham@gmail.com - 2013-05-25 17:48 -0700
  Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) "neil.suffield@gmail.com" <neil.suffield@gmail.com> - 2013-05-25 03:13 -0700
  Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) "neil.suffield@gmail.com" <neil.suffield@gmail.com> - 2013-05-25 03:15 -0700

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