smart-reading 0.3.3

An NLTK-based toolkit aimed at increasing the understanding of various texts.

Smart Reading

About

Smart Reading is a Python module designed for increasing the understanding of various textsforms by using natural language processing. It is heavily based on tools available from the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK).

Installation

The smart_reading module is available for Python 2.7+, but recommended to run on Python 3+ for a more thorough unicode support. Install via pip (or any other desired client)

$ pip install smart_reading

or by downloading the source on PyPI or GitHub and running in the root folder:

$ python setup.py install

Functionality

Three sample texts are included, and available via the function smart_reading.book.sample:

>>> import smart_reading as sr
>>> sr.book.sample() # or sr.book.sample('txt')

Succesfully loaded 'Benn_Ch_II_The_Metaphysicians.txt' as an e-book
Total n.o. tokens: 10420

<smart_reading.book.Book instance at 0x105a546c8>
>>> sr.book.sample('pdf')

Succesfully loaded 'PhysRev.47.777.pdf' as an e-book
Total n.o. tokens: 3192

<smart_reading.book.Book instance at 0x110c0ebd8>
>>> sr.book.sample('epub')

Succesfully loaded 'Mason_Throwing_Sticks.epub' as an e-book
Total n.o. tokens: 13581

<smart_reading.book.Book instance at 0x105a46e60>