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Researchers have uncovered a supply-chain attack that hides in Python packages, propagates like a worm, and tricks LLM-based code analysis systems into overlooking malicious payloads. Threat actors ...

When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for ...

The Academic Research Toolkit is a collection of standalone Python scripts and MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers designed to automate common research workflows. Extract text from PDFs, parse ...

Python extracts text, tables, and images from PDFs quickly and accurately. Libraries like pdfplumber and Camelot make data collection smooth. Scanned PDFs can be read using OCR tools such as ...

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Abstract: There is a sudden increase in digital data as well as a rising demand for extracting text efficiently from images. These two led to full optical character recognition systems are introduced ...

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