collective.ots

Writing a good summary (description) is hard, let the Open Text Summarizer (OTS) do the heavy lifting. This tool extracts a summary of the content and sets it as the description of the content item you added

Project Description

The summary may not be perfect but it is a good starting point for a description. Mostly the summary is pretty good though. The description is only auto generated when you ADD a new Archetypes content item WITHOUT a description. You may edit this description at any time. You can invoke the summarizer on existing content items by selecting 'Summarize' from the 'Actions' menu (see screenshot)

Install using buildout:

Just add collective.ots (and optionally ots) to the egges section of you buildout

eggs:
    ...
    ots
    collective.ots

Run buildout, restart your server and activate the product in your add ons section. You do not have to use the ots egg (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ots) if you have problems installing it. Any ots found in your system will do, so you may install it with:

sudo apt-get install libots0

or the package manager of your distribution, or install it from source.

check that ots is installed and working with:

ots -?

which will give you the output:

Usage:
  ots [OPTION...] [file.txt | stdin]  - Open Text Summarizer

Help Options:
  -?, --help                Show help options

Application Options:
  -r, --ratio=<int>         summarization % [default = 20%]
  -d, --dic=<string>        dictionary to use
  -o, --out=<string>        output file [default = stdout]
  -h, --html                output as html
  -k, --keywords            only output keywords
  -a, --about               only output the summary
  -v, --version             show version information

Installing ots from source

If you have to install ots from source my recommendation is to use the ots supplied with http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ots/0.4.2.1

tar -xvz ots-0.4.2.1.tar.gz
cd ots-0.4.2.1/lib/
tar -xfvj ots-0.4.2+cvs.2004.02.20.tar.bz2
cd ots-0.4.2+cvs.2004.02.20
./configure --prefix=/path/to/install/ots 
make 
make install

if you get an error like;

configure: error: popt 1.5 or newer is required to build ots.
You can download the latest version from ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/

install popt in the same directory where you want to install ots e.g. with

./configure --prefix=/path/to/install/ots 
make
make install

and ots with:

./configure --prefix=/path/to/install/ots --with-popt-prefix=/path/to/install/ots
make
make install

Windows

I have only tested it on Linux but it should work on any unixish OS. When you use windows (a binary is available on http://libots.sourceforge.net)  you are pretty much on your own, but if you get it working please report back how to install it on that system.

Mac

There is a port available for OSX

Self-Certification

[X] Internationalized

[ ] Unit tests

[X] End-user documentation

[ ] Internal documentation (documentation, interfaces, etc.)

[X] Existed and maintained for at least 6 months

[X] Installs and uninstalls cleanly

[X] Code structure follows best practice