# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-present deepset GmbH # # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 import re import string from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional from haystack import component @component class TextCleaner: """ Cleans text strings. It can remove substrings matching a list of regular expressions, convert text to lowercase, remove punctuation, and remove numbers. Use it to clean up text data before evaluation. ### Usage example ```python from haystack.components.preprocessors import TextCleaner text_to_clean = "1Moonlight shimmered softly, 300 Wolves howled nearby, Night enveloped everything." cleaner = TextCleaner(convert_to_lowercase=True, remove_punctuation=False, remove_numbers=True) result = cleaner.run(texts=[text_to_clean]) ``` """ def __init__( self, remove_regexps: Optional[List[str]] = None, convert_to_lowercase: bool = False, remove_punctuation: bool = False, remove_numbers: bool = False, ): """ Initializes the TextCleaner component. :param remove_regexps: A list of regex patterns to remove matching substrings from the text. :param convert_to_lowercase: If `True`, converts all characters to lowercase. :param remove_punctuation: If `True`, removes punctuation from the text. :param remove_numbers: If `True`, removes numerical digits from the text. """ self._remove_regexps = remove_regexps self._convert_to_lowercase = convert_to_lowercase self._remove_punctuation = remove_punctuation self._remove_numbers = remove_numbers self._regex = None if remove_regexps: self._regex = re.compile("|".join(remove_regexps), flags=re.IGNORECASE) to_remove = "" if remove_punctuation: to_remove = string.punctuation if remove_numbers: to_remove += string.digits self._translator = str.maketrans("", "", to_remove) if to_remove else None @component.output_types(texts=List[str]) def run(self, texts: List[str]) -> Dict[str, Any]: """ Cleans up the given list of strings. :param texts: List of strings to clean. :returns: A dictionary with the following key: - `texts`: the cleaned list of strings. """ if self._regex: texts = [self._regex.sub("", text) for text in texts] if self._convert_to_lowercase: texts = [text.lower() for text in texts] if self._translator: texts = [text.translate(self._translator) for text in texts] return {"texts": texts}