Building an Igbo Dictionary API from Converting and Parsing a PDF File
I wanted to see if I could build an Igbo dictionary API that serves Igbo terms and definitions. Since there wasn't anything like this out on the Internet, I had to work a little harder to grab the data I needed to power the API.
In this video, I'll show you how I converted a PDF into an HTML that contains words, word classes, definitions, phrases, and examples from the Igbo language. Then I'll show how I identified the pattern in the original PDF dictionary table and parsed that data to build a JSON object full of data.
API GitHub Repo - https://github.com/ijemmao/igbo_api
Igbo Dictionary PDF - http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pr...
PDF to HTML - https://www.pdftohtml.net/
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:09 What I'm Working On
0:28 Why Work on an Igbo Dictionary API?
1:27 Step 1: Find an Igbo-English Dictionary PDF
2:19 Step 2: Parsing the HTML File
2:50 Step 3: Identify Table Structure
5:01 Issues to Address in the Dictionary JSON files
5:11 Issue: Uncleaned terms were add to the dictionary
5:32 Issue: Similarily Spelled Terms were not batched
5:58 More Dictionary Files
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I'm Ijemma, a frontend software engineer currently working in New York City. I make videos on all things JavaScript and, more broadly, frontend web development.
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