README

SILPA: Swatantra Indian Language Processing Application
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SILPA can act as Indian Language processing Library in Python.
It can also run as a server software providing front end to the
all existing modules.


How to Install:
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1. Get the source code either from git repository in savannah or download the archive
        
        git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/silpa.git
        
              or
        
        wget http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/silpa.git/snapshot/silpa-master.tar.gz
        
2. Go to the folder silpa, Bootstrap the buildout system

        sudo python bootstrap.py
        
3. Create the eggs
  
        bin/buildout setup . build
        
4. Install the library

        sudo bin/buildout setup . install
        
Modules:
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SILPA has currently provides following indic language modules

1. Guess Language
2. Aproximate Search
3. Encoding Converter
4. Sort
5. Spell Checker
6. Dictionary
7. Transliteration
8. Hypenation
9. Syllabalizer
10. N-Gram
11. Random Quotes
12. Indic Soundex
13. Character Details
14. Katapayyadi Numbers
15. Webfonts
16. Stemmer
17. Character Details

Dependencies
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pango
cairo
python-cairo
pypdflib
python-imaging
python-lxml
python-beautifulsoup