person-extractor 3.0.0

Extract people from text

person-extractor

Work in Progress: Identify People's Names in Text

usage

You initialize a PersonExtractor with a path to a CSV of names with each column a language. You can create a csv through Wikinames.

from person_extractor import PersonExtractor

text = "John Doe and Jane Doe live in Springfield"

extractor = PersonExtractor(data="names.csv")

people = extractor.extract(text)

extract returns a list of objects:

[
    { "text": "John Doe", "start": 0, "end": 7 },
    { "text": "Jane Doe", "start": 13, "end": 20 }
]

test

To test the package run:

python -m unittest person_extractor.test

contact

Post an issue at https://github.com/Mak4Lab/person-extractor/issues or email the package authors at [e-mail] and [e-mail]