Living-with-machines/alto2txt

alto2txt: Extract plain text from newspapers

Converts XML (in METS 1.8/ALTO 1.4, METS 1.3/ALTO 1.4, BLN orUKP format) publications to plaintext articles and generates minimal metadata.

Full documentation and demo instructions.

Added

• Added PyPI version and MIT license badges to README.md
• Added pytest-cov with default options to assess documentation
• Added isort to .pre-commit-config.yaml to sort import consistency
• Added pycln to .pre-commit-config.yaml to check unused imports
• Added pycln configuration to pyproject.toml
• Added alto2txt as a command line script in pyproject.toml

Changed

• Switch from Apache v2.0 license to MIT license, inline with project recommendations.
• Updated mypy in .pre-commit-config.yaml

Deprecated

• Replace extract_publications_text.py with the alto2txt command line interface script specified in pyproject.toml

Removed

• setup.py
• requirements.txt

Fixed

• Fixed python = ">3.6.0" in pyproject.toml rather than >3.7 for consistency with documentation
• Fixed licensing ambiguity (now all should be MIT)
• Fixed typos in README.md
• Fixed surperflous imports via pycln in pre-commit