Confopy 0.4.11

Evaluates the linguistic and structural quality of scientific texts.

Confopy
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Asserts the linguistic and structural quality of scientific texts.

Confopy is a command-line tool that accepts one or multiple PDF documents and prints textual reports.
Currently it only works for German papers.

Name origin: Confopy := Conform + Python


Installation
============

Installation using pypi (preferred)
-----------------------------------

sudo pip install -U Confopy

Launch Confopy with

confopy --help
confopy -r document your_paper.pdf

Manual installation
-------------------

Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python-pdfminer

sudo pip install -U lxml
sudo pip install numpy==1.6.2
sudo pip install pyyaml nltk==3.0.0
sudo pip install pyenchant==1.6.5
sudo pip install pattern==2.6

Launch Confopy with

python confopy/ --help
python confopy/ -r document your_paper.pdf


Usage
=====

$ confopy -h
usage: confopy [-h] [-l LANGUAGE] [-lx] [-ml] [-o OUTFILE] [-r REPORT] [-rl]
[-ul] [-vl] [-x]
[file [file ...]]

Language and structure checker for scientific documents.

positional arguments:
file Document file to analyze (PDF).

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l LANGUAGE, --language LANGUAGE
Language to use for PDF extraction and document
analysis. Default: de
-lx, --latex Tell the specified report to format output as LaTeX
(if supported by the report).
-ml, --metriclist Lists all available metrics by language and exits.
-o OUTFILE, --outfile OUTFILE
File to write the output too. Default: terminal
(stdout).
-r REPORT, --report REPORT
Analyses the given document according to the specified
report.
-rl, --reportlist Lists all available reports by language and exits.
-ul, --rulelist Lists all rules and exits.
-vl, --validate Validates a given XML against the XSD for the Confopy
data model.
-x, --xml Converts the PDF file(s) to Confopy XML (structure
orientated).


Getting a corpus
================

Confopy needs a corpus (collection of language data) to run.

For German (TIGER treebank):

Automated download:

1. Go to
<your python package directory>/confopy/localization/de/corpus\_de/
2. Execute the script
tiger_dl_patch.py
within that folder

Manual download:

1. Go to:
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/ressourcen/korpora/TIGERCorpus/license/htmlicense.html
2. Accept the license and download TIGER-XML Release 2.2:
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/ressourcen/korpora/TIGERCorpus/download/tigercorpus-2.2.xml.tar.gz
3. Unpack the archive into confopy/localization/de/corpus\_de/
4. Run the patch tiger\_release\_aug07.corrected.16012013\_patch.py in the same folder
5. Verify that the generated file is named exactly like in confopy/config.py


Python 3
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* The package python-pdfminer only works with python 2.4 or newer, but not with python 3


Known Issues and Workarounds
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enchant.errors.DictNotFoundError: Dictionary for language 'de_DE' could not be found
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Install the German aspell package. E.g. on Ubuntu 16.04:

```
sudo apt install aspell-de
```

Unicode errors
--------------

* Configure terminal to use unicode!
* For Python devs:
http://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html#the-unicode-type
* Convert the TIGER Treebank file
"tiger_release_aug07.corrected.16012013.xml"
to utf-8 encoding before using Confopy!