''' This code outlines the data pre-processing work done (text: cleaning/ tokenizing and images: extracting text from the image using pytesseract). The dataset in the repo is the processed one. ''' ! pip install datasets q from datasets import load_dataset dataset = load_dataset("mo-mittal/reddit_political_subs", trust_remote_code=True) # Install Tesseract OCR !sudo apt install tesseract-ocr # Install pytesseract !pip install pytesseract import pytesseract from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor # this assumes 'dataset' is already loaded and contains the earlier data. I had done the preprocessing on an earlier version of the current dataset. #### you can also check how many CPU cores are available for the threadpool processor # import os # num_cores = os.cpu_count() # print(f"Number of available CPU cores: {num_cores}") def ocr_image(index): try: # Retrieve the image and associated URL from the dataset. image_pil = dataset['train'][index]['image'] url = dataset['train'][index]['url'] # Check if 'image_text' is empty and if the word 'imgur' is in the 'url' field. if (dataset['train'][index]['image_text'] == '') and ('imgur' in url): text = pytesseract.image_to_string(image_pil) print(f'Sublime! Processed img at {index}') return text except Exception as e: return None # Create a ThreadPoolExecutor to parallelize image processing. num_workers = 8 # Adjust this number based on your machine's capabilities. imgur_text = [] with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=num_workers) as executor: # Use map to apply 'ocr_image' function to each index. results = list(executor.map(ocr_image, range(len(dataset['train'])))) # Now 'results' contains the OCR results or None for each image. # Filter out None values and add the text to 'imgur_text' list. imgur_text.extend(filter(None, results)) # 'imgur_text' now contains all the OCR results. This can take quite a while to process! (About 7503 images and 12 hours for an 8 core CPU) ## for text cleaning import pandas as pd df = pd.DataFrame(dataset['train'].remove_columns(['image'])) # df.head() results_list = list(results) for i, text in enumerate(results_list): if text is not None: df.loc[i, 'image_text'] = text # df.to_csv('reddit_political_subs.csv', index=False) import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv('reddit_political_subs.csv') import nltk nltk.download('stopwords') import re from nltk.corpus import stopwords import string def clean_text(text): text = re.sub(r'\\n', ' ', text) text = re.sub(r'\\x..', '', text) text = re.sub(r'[@|\\]', '', text) text = text.translate(str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation)) stop_words = set(stopwords.words('english')) text = ' '.join([word for word in text.split() if word not in stop_words]) text = ' '.join(text.split()) text = text.lower() return text df['image_text'] = df['image_text'].apply(clean_text)