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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+use utf8;
+
+use Getopt::Std;
+
+=pod
+
+=head1 NAME 
+
+genwordlists.pl - generate word lists for Tesseract
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+genwordlists.pl -i large_text_file -d outdir -p lang
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+    genwordlists.pl -i large_text_file -d outdir -p lang
+
+Creates 4 files in C<outdir>: F<lang.word.bigrams.unsorted>,
+F<lang.word.numbers.unsorted>, F<lang.word.punc.unsorted>, and
+F<lang.wordlist.unsorted>, which (when sorted) can be used with
+C<wordlist2dawg> for Tesseract's language data.
+
+The script can also run as a filter. Given a set of files created
+by WikiExtractor (L<http://medialab.di.unipi.it/Project/SemaWiki/Tools/WikiExtractor.py>),
+use:
+
+    find WikiExtractor -type f | while read i; do \
+    pfx=$(echo $i|tr '/' '_'); cat $i | \
+    perl genwordlists.pl -d OUTDIR -p $pfx; done
+
+This will create a set of output files to match each of the files 
+WikiExtractor created.
+
+To combine these files:
+
+    for i in word.bigrams.unsorted word.numbers.unsorted \
+    word.punc.unsorted wordlist.unsorted; do \
+    find OUTDIR -name "*$i" -exec cat '{}' \; |\
+    perl -CS -ane 'BEGIN{my %c=();} chomp;
+    my($a,$b)=split/\t/;if(defined $c{$a}){$c{$a}+=$b}
+    else {$c{$a} = $b;} END{while(my($k,$v)=each %c)
+    {print "$v\t$k\n";}}'|sort -nr > tmp.$i ;done
+
+Followed by:
+
+    for i in word.punc.unsorted word.bigrams.unsorted \
+    word.numbers.unsorted;do cat tmp.$i \
+    awk -F'\t' '{print $2 "\t" $1}' > real.$i ; done
+    cat tmp.wordlist.unsorted | awk -F'\t' '{print $2}' \
+    > real.wordlist.unsorted
+
+Note that, although the langdata repository contains the
+counts of each item in most of the punctuation, number, and
+bigram files, these files must be filtered to only contain
+the first column, otherwise C<wordlist2dawg> will fail to write
+the output file.
+
+=head1 CAVEATS
+
+The format of the output files, and how the data are extracted,
+is based only on staring at the input files and taking a guess.
+They may be wildly inaccurate.
+
+The only part I can say for certain is correct is that digits
+are replaced with '?' in the .numbers wordlist. (See F<dict/dict.cpp>
+in the Tesseract source).
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+Copyright 2014 Jim O'Regan
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+L<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+L<wordlist2dawg(1)>
+
+=cut
+
+# I haven't looked into this too much
+my %lig = (
+	# Longest first
+	'ffi' => 'ffi',
+	'ct' => "\N{U+E003}",
+	'ff' => 'ff',
+	'fi' => 'fi',
+	'fl' => 'fl',
+	'st' => 'st',
+);
+
+my %punct;
+my %num;
+my %bigrams;
+my %opts;
+my %words;
+
+my $do_ligatures = 0;
+
+getopts("hli:p:d:", \%opts);
+
+if (defined $opts{h}) {
+	print "Usage: genwordlists [options]\n";
+	print "-h\tPrints a brief help message\n";
+	print "-d\tSet the output directory (default is current)\n";
+	print "-b\tSet the prefix for the language data (e.g., eng for English)\n";
+	print "-l\tProcess ligatures\n";
+	print "-i\tSet the input file. If not set, reads from stdin\n";
+	exit;
+}
+
+if (defined $opts{l}) {
+	$do_ligatures = 1;
+}
+
+my $prefix = '';
+if (!defined $opts{p}) {
+	print "Prefix (-p) must be set!\n";
+	exit;
+} else {
+	if (defined $opts{d}) {
+		$prefix = $opts{d};
+		$prefix =~ s/\/$//;
+		$prefix .= '/';
+	}
+	$prefix .= $opts{p};
+	# Easiest is to drop it, if present, and readd
+	$prefix =~ s/\.$//;
+	$prefix .= ".";
+}
+
+my $input;
+if (defined $opts{i}) {
+	open ($input, "<", $opts{i}) or die $!;
+#} elsif ($#ARGV > 0) {
+#	open ($input, "<", $ARGV[0]) or die $!;
+} else {
+	$input = *STDIN;
+}
+binmode $input, ":utf8";
+
+while (<$input>) {
+	chomp;
+	tr/\t/ /;
+
+	next if (/^<doc/);
+	next if (/^<\/doc/);
+	next if (/^$/);
+	next if (/^[ \t]*$/);
+	next if (/^\]\]$/);
+
+	my @punct = $_ =~ /([ \p{Punct}]*)/g;
+	for my $i (@punct) {
+		if(defined($punct{$i})) {
+			$punct{$i}++;
+		} else {
+			$punct{$i} = 1;
+		}
+	}
+	my @rawnumtok = split(/ /);
+	my @numtok = map { local $_ = $_; s/[0-9]/ /g; $_ } grep(/[0-9]/, @rawnumtok);
+	for my $i (@numtok) {
+		if(defined($num{$i})) {
+			$num{$i}++;
+		} else {
+			$num{$i} = 1;
+		}
+	}
+
+	my @bitoksraw = map { local $_ = $_; s/[0-9]/?/g; $_ } split(/ |[ \p{Punct}][ \p{Punct}]+/);
+	if ($#bitoksraw > 0) {
+		my @first = @bitoksraw;
+		my $discard = shift @bitoksraw;
+		for (my $j = 0; $j != $#first; $j++) {
+			if ($bitoksraw[$j] ne '' && $first[$j] ne '') {
+				my $tok = $first[$j] . " " . $bitoksraw[$j];
+				#Not keeping count of these, but this can be useful for trimming
+				if(defined($bigrams{$tok})) {
+					$bigrams{$tok}++;
+				} else {
+					$bigrams{$tok} = 1;
+				}
+				if($do_ligatures == 1) {
+					my $other = do_lig($tok);
+					if ($other ne $tok) {
+						if(defined($bigrams{$other})) {
+							$bigrams{$other}++;
+						} else {
+							$bigrams{$other} = 1;
+						}
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	my @wordl = grep { !/[0-9 \p{Punct}]/ } split (/[ \p{Punct}]+/);
+	if ($#wordl >= 0) {
+		for my $word (@wordl) {
+			if (defined $words{$word}) {
+				$words{$word}++;
+			} else {
+				$words{$word} = 1;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+if (defined $opts{i}) {
+	close $input;
+}
+
+open(BIGRAMS, ">", "${prefix}word.bigrams.unsorted");
+binmode BIGRAMS, ":utf8";
+while (my($k, $v) = each %bigrams) {
+	print BIGRAMS "$k\t$v\n";
+}
+close BIGRAMS;
+%bigrams = ();
+
+open(PUNCT, ">", "${prefix}word.punc.unsorted");
+binmode PUNCT, ":utf8";
+while (my($k, $v) = each %punct) {
+	print PUNCT "$k\t$v\n";
+}
+close PUNCT;
+%punct = ();
+
+open(NUMS, ">", "${prefix}word.numbers.unsorted");
+binmode NUMS, ":utf8";
+while (my($k, $v) = each %num) {
+	print NUMS "$k\t$v\n";
+}
+close NUMS;
+%num = ();
+
+open(WORDS, ">", "${prefix}wordlist.unsorted");
+binmode WORDS, ":utf8";
+while (my($k, $v) = each %words) {
+	print WORDS "$k\t$v\n";
+}
+close WORDS;
+%words = ();
+
+sub do_lig {
+	my $word = shift;
+	while (my($k, $v) = each %lig) {
+		$word =~ s/$k/$v/g;
+	}
+	$word;
+}