EPUB text extraction demo

Contents of this repo

• Tika demo script
• Textract demo script
• Ebooklib demo script
• Working notes

Demo scripts

Each of these demo scripts iterates over files with an .epub extension in a user-defined input directory. For each of these files, it extracts the text, and writes the extracted text (using UTF-8 encoding) to a file in a user-defined output directory. It also writes a summary file with the word count for each EPUB.

Tika-python script

Usage

python3 extract-tika.py [-h] [--trim] dirIn dirOut

positional arguments:

• dirIn: directory with input EPUB files
• dirOut: output directory
• -h, --help: show help message and exit

Example

python3 ./textExtractDemo/scripts/extract-tika.py DBNL_EPUBS_moderneromans/ out-dbnl/

Textract script

Usage

python3 extract-textract.py [-h] dirIn dirOut

positional arguments:

• dirIn: directory with input EPUB files
• dirOut: output directory
• -h, --help: show help message and exit

Example

python3 ./textExtractDemo/scripts/extract-textract.py DBNL_EPUBS_moderneromans/ out-dbnl/

Ebooklib script

Usage

python3 extract-ebooklib.py [-h] dirIn dirOut

positional arguments:

• dirIn: directory with input EPUB files
• dirOut: output directory
• -h, --help: show help message and exit

Example

python3 ./textExtractDemo/scripts/extract-ebooklib.py DBNL_EPUBS_moderneromans/ out-dbnl/