This project has been archived, and has a new home.

See https://github.com/tangledhelix/pptools/

pptools

This is a collection of tools to help to check the ebooks produced by Distributed Proofreader, before they are submitted to Project Gutenberg.

The frontend for the tools is a web service that can be run locally on a Linux system, or online.

It is currently available for everyone to use at https://pptools.tangledhelix.com

Local installation

Requirements

This is for a local installation on Ubuntu. Several packages have to be installed with the following command line:

sudo apt-get install python3-flask python3-lxml python3-roman w3c-sgml-lib dwdiff python3-flaskext.wtf python3-tinycss python3-cssselect

On older versions of Ubuntu, some of these packages are not available, they can be installed through pip:

sudo pip3 install cssselect sudo pip3 install flask-wtf sudo pip3 install tinycss

To run the application, cd into wsgi, and run:

./pptools.py

Then point a web browser to the displayed URL, usually http://127.0.0.1:5000/