chunkipy 1.1.0
Chunkipy is an easy-to-use library for chunking text based on the size estimator function you provide.
License: MIT
Requires Python: <3.13,>=3.10
Keywords: text, chunking, NLP, tokenization

# Chunkipy

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`chunkipy` is an extremely useful tool for segmenting long texts into smaller chunks, based on either a character or token count. With customizable chunk sizes and splitting strategies, `chunkipy` provides flexibility and control
for various text processing tasks.

## Motivation and Features

`chunkipy` was created to address the need within the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to chunk text so that it does not exceed the input size of **neural networks** such as BERT, but it could be used for several other use cases.

The library offers some useful features:

- **Size estimation**: unlike other text chunking libraries, `chunkipy` offers the possibility of providing a size estimator function, in order to build the chunks taking into account the  counting function (e.g. tokenizer) that will use those chunks.
- **Split text into meaningful sentences**: as an optional configuration, `chunkipy`,
  in creating the chunks, avoids cutting sentences, and always tries to have a complete and syntactically correct sentence.
  This is achieved through the use of the sentence segmenter libraries, that utilize semantic models to cut text
  into meaningful sentences.
- **Smart Overlapping**: `chunkipy` offers the possibility to define an `overlap_percentage` and create overlapping chunks to
  preserve the context along chunks.
- **Flexibility for text splitters**: Additionally, `chunkipy` offers complete flexibility in choosing how to split, allowing users to define their own text splitting function or choose from a list of pre-defined text spliters.

## Documentation

For **Installation**, **Usage**, and **API documentation**, please refer to the [documentation](https://gioelecrispo.github.io/chunkipy).

You can also check the [examples](https://github.com/gioelecrispo/chunkipy/tree/main/examples) directory for more usage scenarios.

## Contributing

If you find a bug or have a feature request, please open an issue on [GitHub](https://github.com/gioelecrispo/chunkipy/issues).
Contributions are welcome! Just fork the repository, create a new branch with your changes, and submit a pull request. Please make sure to write tests for your changes and to follow the [code style](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/).

### Development

To start developing chunkipy, it is recommended to:

1. Create a virtual environment (e.g. `python -m venv .venv`) and activate it
2. Install poetry via `pip install poetry`
3. Install the development dependencies via one of these commands:

```bash
poetry install  # no extra dependencies
poetry install --extras tiktoken
poetry install --extras langdetect,spacy  # multiple extras dependencies
poetry install --all-extras  # all the extras dependencies
```

### Building documentation

`chunkipy` relies on python docstrings and `sphinx` for its documentation.
`sphinx-autosummary` is used to automatically generate documentation from code.

`sphinx-multiversion` is used to provide multiversion support, i.e. you can navigation documention for past version too.

This is handled via Github Action, but you can reproduce it by installing the needed dependencies:

```bash
poetry install --only docs
```

and then by running the following command:

```bash
sphinx-multiversion docs/source docs/build/html
```

### Testing

We use `pytest` as main testing framework.
You can install al the testing dependencies by running:

```bash
poetry install --with test
```

Once done, you can run all the unit test (and check the coverage) with this command from the project folder:

```bash
pytest --cov=chunkipy --cov-report=term
```

## License

`chunkipy` is licensed under the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).