ProtoCollection (Swedish: ProtoKollen) is a web service that harvests and analyzes meeting minutes from the 290 Swedish municipal boards (“kommunstyrelse”). The project is funded by Vinnova.

• An Amazon S3 bucket
• Command line access to your server
• Internet connection (even for a dry run)
• Python2 => 2.5

• Firefox (tested with version 32.0 and 33.0)
• Xvfb (tested with version 1.15.1)
• Service-account credentials from the Google developers console, if you wish to use Google Spreadsheets as the source for your harvesting. Not needed if you use a local CSV file.
• python-magic (installed by setup.py) and libmagic (needs to be installed separately)

• wvText and wvSummary from wv (tested with version 1.2.1), using either lynx or elinks (but not links)
• Tesseract >= version 3.02.02
• Swedish data for Tesseract (a file called SWE.traineddata in current versions, that must be put in Tesseract's data directory)
• The Python Imaging Library, PIL (tested with version 2.3)
• GhostScript (tested with version 9.10)

These scripts have been tested under Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian 7. Making them run under Windows would probably require some extra hacking.

• Clone this repository
• From the protokollen directory, run python setup.py develop
• Copy login.template.py to login.py, and add your Amazon S3 and Google API credentials there, as well as the names of the S3 buckets you want to use to store documents and text files.
• Copy your Google API p12 file to google_api.p12 (or specify another path in login.py)

The harvesting script harvest.py takes a table with URLs and xPath expressions. It will fetch any valid files encountered, and store them on Amazon S3.

Run python harvest.py --help for more info on how to feed data into the script, or pydoc ./harvest.py (or pdoc ./harvest.py) for API help.

Here is an example csv file with xPaths from Dalarna and Gävleborg.

The extraction script extractor.py will go through files in an Amazon S3 bucket, and try to extract plain text data from them. It understands pdf, docx and doc files, and can also do OCR on scanned pdf-files.

Run python extractor.py --help for more info, or pydoc ./extractor.py (or pdoc ./extractor.py) for API help.

TBD

• 0.1: First harvester

Further information might be available in the Swedish README file.

Find us on www.protokollen.net

Many people have contributed to ProtoKollen in various ways. For a list of source code contributions, see github.com/rotsee/protokollen/graphs/contributors

This repository ships with Tesseract OCR training data for Swedish, available under the Apache 2.0 license.

Everything else distributed under the MIT License (MIT). In short: Do whatever you want with it, but we would love to hear from you if you find it useful!

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