WesleyyC / Novels-Punctuation

Read a novels with punctuation...

Novels-Punctuation

Inspired by the medium post "Punctuation in novels", I start to wonder what it feels like to read something just with the punctual. No words, no number. Just punctuations.

So I write this python script in a cafe to help convert a PDF format reading into txt format only with the punctuation.

Setup

First we need to setup the pdf reading component by:

$ cd NoWords
$ python pdfminer/setup.py 

Usage

To convert the file, do:

$ python NoWords.py <PATH TO THE PDF FILE> 

# for example
$ python NoWords.py sample/AAW.pdf

and the output txt file should be in the same path of the input file.

Output as PDF?

I have tried to convert the txt to PDF directly in python, but it is not as nice as using Mac TextEditor to export PDF file. If you want to use the python pdf converter, you can set the following flag in NoWords.py to True:

pdf = False

Let's look at Pride and Prejudice !