This repository contains all the public domain stories that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about the character Sherlock Holmes.
The text in the directories novels/ and stories/ is originally sourced from Project Gutenberg, which is not affiliated with this repository in any way. The text has been changed to make it more regular and easy for text tools to process uniformly.
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The code in the root directory, which processes the text in the two folders, is copyright Brilliant Worldwide, all rights reserved, etc.
Merge the file fragments into one file, ./assets/sherlock.txt
python3 create-sherlock-txt.py
Build index as a single JSON file, ./assets/sherlock-index.json
python3 create-sherlock-index-json.py
Build a more efficient representation in two files: a regular json file ./assets/sherlock-encoded-index.json and file of packed binary data ./assets/sherlock-encoded-index.data.
python3 create-sherlock-encoded-index.py