khmereasytools 0.3.5

A simple library for Khmer text processing, with optional dependencies for different features.

Khmer Easy Tools

A simple, user-friendly Python library for common Khmer Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. This package uses optional dependencies to provide different features.

Installation

Install the base package (which includes is_khmer and stop word utilities):

pip install khmereasytools

Installing Optional Features

You can install the features you need. This is useful if one of the dependencies has installation issues on your system.

# To install support for khmercut (for khfilter)
pip install khmereasytools[khmercut]

# To install support for khmernltk (for khseg, khpos, khsyllable)
pip install khmereasytools[khmernltk]

# To install support for OCR (for khocr)
pip install khmereasytools[ocr]

# To install everything
pip install khmereasytools[all]

For OCR functionality, you must also install Google's Tesseract OCR engine on your system.

• Tesseract Installation Guide
• Make sure to install the Khmer (khm) language data.

How to Use

Khmer Character Validation (is_khmer)

import khmereasytools as ket
print(ket.is_khmer("សួស្តី"))  # True

Keyword Extraction (khfilter)

Requires khmercut to be installed.

import khmereasytools as ket
# pip install khmereasytools[khmercut]
text = "នេះគឺជាប្រាសាទអង្គរវត្តស្ថិតនៅក្នុងខេត្តសៀមរាប"
keywords = ket.khfilter(text)
print(f"Keywords: '{{keywords}}'")

Text Segmentation (khseg)

Requires khmernltk to be installed.

import khmereasytools as ket
# pip install khmereasytools[khmernltk]
text = "នេះគឺជាប្រាសាទអង្គរវត្ត"
words = ket.khseg(text)
print(f"Segmented Words: {words}")

Syllable Segmentation (khsyllable)

Requires khmernltk to be installed.

import khmereasytools as ket
text = "សាលារៀន"
syllables = ket.khsyllable(text)
print(f"Syllables: {syllables}")

Part-of-Speech Tagging (khpos)

Requires khmernltk to be installed.

import khmereasytools as ket
text = "ខ្ញុំ ស្រឡាញ់ ភាសាខ្មែរ"
tags = ket.khpos(text)
print(f"POS Tags: {tags}")

OCR from Image (khocr)

Requires ocr dependencies to be installed.

import khmereasytools as ket
# pip install khmereasytools[ocr]
# Make sure you have an image file e.g., 'khmer_text.png'
# text_from_image = ket.khocr('khmer_text.png')
# print(f"Text from OCR: {{text_from_image}}")