I copy and paste text from PDFs a lot, and this utility helps do some basic cleaning of the copied text to make it more palatable! Just copy the text section from the PDF, run python clean.py, and the new clean text will be in your clipboard and printed out to the terminal.
Clone the repo and then run pip install -r requirements.txt
Recommended workflow: add an alias in .bashrc that changes the directory to this repo, (optionally activates a conda environment), and then runs python clean.py. Currently I can open a terminal, run the alias, and get the cleaned text in about 5-6 seconds.
- Have it run in the background so that you don't have to wait for the dictionary to load every time
- Call from command line (improve workflow)
- Throw onto a website
- Just use one dictionary (currently it uses two different wordsets)
I use the English words repo for one dictionary and pyspellchecker for another.