https://github.com/antiboredom/patent-generator

Transforms literary/philosophical texts into patent applications
https://github.com/antiboredom/patent-generator

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Transforms literary/philosophical texts into patent applications

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/antiboredom/patent-generator
• Owner: antiboredom
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-05-10T21:45:21.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-05-18T03:22:34.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-15T19:05:07.501Z (29 days ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 5.51 MB
• Stars: 359
• Watchers: 21
• Forks: 44
• Open Issues: 3
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Patent Generator

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Transforms literary/philosophical texts into patent applications.

Read the blog post here: http://lav.io/2014/05/transform-any-text-into-a-patent-application/

### Repository Contents

* "machine.py" generates patents

* "search.py" searches texts for parts of speech and hypernym combinations (among other things)

* "get_illustrations.py" scrapes Bing for patent illustrations

* "scraper.py" downloads the full text of patent applications based on keywords

### Dependencies

The script requires [pattern](https://github.com/clips/pattern). If you have pip installed, just run:

```

pip install pattern

```

### Using it

To run the patent generator:

```

python machine.py < text.txt

```