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Generate furigana from Japanese

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furigana

Generate furigana(振り仮名) from Japanese

It uses MeCab (a Natural Language Toolkit) to split Japanese into words, and superscript it with furigana (振り仮名).

Example:

input

from furigana.furigana import print_html
print_html('澱んだ街角で僕らは出会った')

output

澱よど ん だ 街角まちかど で 僕ぼく ら は 出で 会あ っ た

input

from furigana.furigana import print_html
print_html('お茶にお煎餅、よく合いますね')

output

お 茶ちゃ に お 煎餅せんべい 、 よく 合あ い ます ね

Usage

$ python3 furigana.py '活版印刷の流れを汲む出版作業では'

Dependency

See https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mecab-python3/0.7
run below commands on ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libmecab-dev mecab mecab-ipadic-utf8
sudo -H pip3 install mecab-python3
sudo -H pip3 install jaconv

Conflict with Anaconda Python

Please use Ubuntu's original python3, not to use with Anaconda Python3