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+# Data Parse
+Tools used to convert AP Exam PDFs into individual data components that were uploaded to a google sheet. The code in here is rudimentary and messy, and is only intended to run from the IDE. It utilizes hard coded file-paths and was not designed for actual use in anyway. 
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+# Resources Used
+- Tesseract (Machine Learning powered Optical Character Recognition tool by Google)
+- pdf2image (Python library to convert pdfs to images)
+- imageio (Python library to crop and process images)
+- pygsheets (Python library to upload data to google sheets)
+- Google Sheets API (API provided by google to allow automation of various GDrive tasks)
+- pandas (Python data library)