kuhumcst / rtfreader

Text segmenter and tokeniser for Danish, English and other languages. Reads an RTF or flat text file and outputs the text, one line per sentence & optionally tokenized.

#rtfreader# Read an RTF or flat text file and output the text, one line per sentence. RTF formatted lay-out is used to spot 'sentences' that behave in special ways: headings and list items. When flat text is given as input, an empty line is understood as a sentence delimiter, even if a full stop is absent. Also, certain symbols at the start of the line, if repeated on following lines, are interpreted as 'bullets' in a list. The output can optionally be tokenised. The program can be informed about abbreviations and multiple word units by adding extra parameters.

RTF is chosen as rich input format because

1. it is an open standard
2. it is practically always valid because it is machine-made (contrary to e.g. HTML)
3. it is fairly easy to parse, without the need to also read style sheets (contrary to XML)
4. there are tools out there that can convert other formats to RTF while retaining essential lay out

Online availability

RTFreader is used as segmenter and tokeniser in CST's online toolboxes (https://cst.dk/tools/index.php?lang=en and http://cst.dk/WMS/).

Installing RTFreader on your computer

RTFreader depends on some other repositories. To clone all necessary repositories and build RTFreader, look at makertfreader.bash in the doc folder. If you are in Linux, you can probably just run this script file.

The Makefile in the src directory creates the executable in the rtfreader folder.

rtfreader's Issues

Missing files

As mentioned in makefile:

$(LETTERFUNCDIR)/letter.cpp\
$(LETTERFUNCDIR)/letterfunc.cpp\
$(SGMLDIR)/parsesgml.cpp\

Neither of those folders nor files exist within this project. Where can I get them?

How to set character?

if the target file character set was ansicpg936, the tool can't change this file to txt.
how to convert this files?