fingerprint 0.1.0

Document fingerprint generator

• What is it?

  “fingerprint” module generates fingerprints of a document.

• Fingerprint!!!! :(, What is that?

  Fingerprint is like the signature of the document. More specifically, in our context, it is the subset of hash values calculated from the document.

• Okay i now know about it a bit, tell me how it calculates fingerprints?

  Generation of fingerprints of a document is a three stage process;

  • (1st phase) generates the k-grams from the standard string

  • (2nd phase) generates the hash values for each k-gram using rolling hash function

  • (3rd phase) generates the fingerprints from the hash values using winnowing

• How can i install it on my machine?

  You can install it in basically two ways;

  • using source

    1. git clone [e-mail]:kailashbuki/fingerprint.git

    2. cd fingerprint

    3. sudo python setup.py install

  • using pip

    1. sudo pip install fingerprint

• Hmm! … How can i use it?

  It’s plain simple. Here’s an example for you;

            from fingerprint.fingerprintgenerator import file_content_refiner, FingerprintGenerator

            # You could get the standard string from a document as;
            s = file_content_refiner("path/to/file")
            # OR you could directly pass the standard string if you have
            s = "some sample string"

            fpg = FingerprintGenerator(input_string=s)
            fpg.generate_fingerprints()
            print fpg.fingerprints

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