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UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0x89 in position 270: invalid start byte – WHY?

I’m doing an ultra-simple web page scraper using Python/Beautifulsoup. Facing a key information displayed as PNG image, I’ve had to reach for PIL/Pytesseract. Code being extremely simple, and working when executed as my user. Image did load as print cmd … Continue reading

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Welcome

So, I’m finally starting to blog. I hope to come back here someday and find things I failed to remember. Hopefully the topics will include software development, outsourcing, project management, free software reviews, and who knows what else – as … Continue reading

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