irspdf 0.3.0

A simple information retrieval system for pdf documents

irspdf

A simple textual information retrieval system for pdf documents.

The ranking function used is BM25.

Installation

Install with pip

pip install irspdf

OR install from github

git clone https://github.com/Jibril-Frej/irspdf.git
cd irspdf && python setup.py install

Usage

Build a collection

from irspdf import build
build(folder_path, collection_path)

folder_path : path of the folder that contains all the pdf files to include to the collection.

collection_path : file where the collection will be saved

Query the collection

from irspdf import query
query(collection_path)

collection_path : file where the collection is saved

Update the collection

from irspdf import update
update(folder_path, collection_path)

folder_path : path of the folder that contains all the pdf files to add to the collection.

collection_path : file where the original collection is saved