I was reading the knothole today and Grant was talking about an index to the Rivendell Readers. I've got most of the readers on pdf as a solstice present a couple of years back.
So I was noodling around a bit and here's what I did: 1. split all of the pdfs out into per-page output 2. converted all the per-page pdfs to text files. 3. wrote a python script to do some relatively naive word indexing 4. enhanced the naivete a bit to avoid really common words and pretty much anything that appears more than 500 times. 5. dumped all of this to a series of text files. Limits of its use: a. it's word-separated not 'phrase' so 'sam' is separate from 'hillborne' b. the first 10-20 RR on pdf appear to be ocr'd in. So the text is occasionally garbled which results in 'odd' things. c. a lot of 'grantisms' in use - so when he says 'pillar and means 'hunqapillar' well - that's under 'p' not under 'h' d. if you look for 'rivendell' or 'bike' you're not going to find it b/c, well, that seemed silly to include for fairly obvious reasons, I hope. :) If anyone has 36-40 in a pdf I can run this across them too. It's not a proper index, of course, but it is a heck of a start for anyone who wants to refine it down. Neat facts: the first time the word 'atlantis' appears ( RR18 - pg 0011). romulus appears 25 times in total. that something like 'rambouillet' appears in a variety of interesting spellings through out. -sv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
