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Create wordcloud with ArabicΒΆ
Generating a wordcloud from Arabic text
Dependencies: - bidi.algorithm - arabic_reshaper
Dependencies installation: pip install python-bidi arabic_reshape
Out:
<wordcloud.wordcloud.WordCloud object at 0x7f4b79679fd0>
import os
import codecs
from wordcloud import WordCloud
import arabic_reshaper
from bidi.algorithm import get_display
# get data directory (using getcwd() is needed to support running example in generated IPython notebook)
d = os.path.dirname(__file__) if "__file__" in locals() else os.getcwd()
# Read the whole text.
f = codecs.open(os.path.join(d, 'arabicwords.txt'), 'r', 'utf-8')
# Make text readable for a non-Arabic library like wordcloud
text = arabic_reshaper.reshape(f.read())
text = get_display(text)
# Generate a word cloud image
wordcloud = WordCloud(font_path='fonts/NotoNaskhArabic/NotoNaskhArabic-Regular.ttf').generate(text)
# Export to an image
wordcloud.to_file("arabic_example.png")
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 1.006 seconds)