PgsFile

Purpose: This module is designed to make complex tasks accessible and convenient, even for beginners. By providing a unified set of tools, it simplifies the workflow for data collection, processing, and analysis. Whether you're scraping data from the web, cleaning text, or performing LLM-based NLP tasks, this module ensures you can focus on your research without getting bogged down by technical challenges.

Key Features:

• Web Scraping: Easily scrape data from websites and download multimedia content.
• Package Management: Install, uninstall, and manage Python packages with simple commands.
• Data Retrieval: Extract data from various file formats like text, JSON, TSV, Excel, XML, and HTML (both online and offline).
• Data Storage: Write and append data to text files, Excel, JSON, and JSON lines.
• File and Folder Processing: Manage file paths, create directories, move or copy files, and search for files with specific keywords.
• Data Cleaning: Clean text, handle punctuation, remove stopwords, and prepare data for analysis, utilizing valuable corpora and dictionaries such as CET-4/6 vocabulary and BNC-COCA word lists.
• NLP: Perform OCR, word tokenization, lemmatization, POS tagging, NER, dependency parsing, keywords extraction, MDD, WSD, LIWC, and MIP analysis using prepared LLM prompts.
• Math Operations: Format numbers, convert decimals to percentages, and validate data.
• Visualization: Process images (e.g., make white pixels transparent, resize images) and manage fonts for rendering text.

Author: Pan Guisheng, a PhD student at the Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation of Shanghai International Studies University Email: [e-mail]