Get the extension of uploaded file in flask

Asked Jul 15 '22 at 03:19

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I'm writing a flask API to extract text from the document. I want to check the extension and if it is pdf I'll give it to the pdf miner else docx2txt.

@app.route('/text-extraction', methods = ['POST'])
def text_extractions():
    f = request.files['files']
    split_tup = os.path.splitext(f)
    file_extension = split_tup[1]
    if file_extension == '.pdf':
        return extract_text(f)
    else:
        text = docx2txt.process(f)
    if extract_text:
        return text.replace('\t', ' ')
    return None

edited Jul 15 '22 at 03:36

davidism

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asked Jul 15 '22 at 03:19

Vivek Menon M

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This might be the Solution your looking for: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/541390/extracting-extension-from-filename-in-python – NivisPluma Jul 15 '22 at 09:08
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`endswith('.pdf')` ? – QwertYou Jul 15 '22 at 10:54
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Or here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.splitext – GerritKruse Jul 15 '22 at 11:32
endswith('.pdf') is not working in my case @QwertYou – Vivek Menon M Jul 15 '22 at 11:38
hm, what is the error and how do you do this? – QwertYou Jul 15 '22 at 12:04

Get the extension of uploaded file in flask

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