Legacy Nepali font to Unicode converter with PDF rescue
Project description
nepali-converter
Convert legacy Nepali font encodings (Preeti, Kantipur, Sagarmatha, Himalb) to Unicode Devanagari. Also rescues legacy-encoded text from PDFs (non-OCR).
Part of the nepali-fonts project.
Installation
pip install nepali-converter
For PDF rescue support:
pip install nepali-converter[pdf]
CLI usage
Convert a legacy-encoded text file:
nepali-convert input.txt --font preeti --output output.txt
Auto-detect the legacy font:
nepali-convert input.txt --output output.txt
Read from stdin:
echo "g]kfn" | nepali-convert - --font preeti
Rescue text from a legacy-font PDF:
nepali-convert --pdf document.pdf --output rescued.txt
nepali-convert --pdf document.pdf --pages 1-5 --output rescued.txt
Python API
from nepali_converter import convert, detect_font
# Convert with a known font
text = convert("g]kfn", "preeti") # → "नेपाल"
# Auto-detect the font
font = detect_font(legacy_text)
if font:
text = convert(legacy_text, font)
# Rescue text from a PDF (requires nepali-converter[pdf])
from nepali_converter import rescue_pdf
rescued = rescue_pdf("document.pdf", pages=(1, 10))
Supported fonts
| Font | Encoding |
|---|---|
| Preeti | Windows-1252 (cp1252) |
| Kantipur | Windows-1252 (cp1252) |
| Sagarmatha | Windows-1252 (cp1252) |
| Himalb (Fontasy Himali TT) | Windows-1252 (cp1252) |
License
MIT
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