buckwalter-transliteration

A small npm module script that transliterates Arabic text using the Buckwalter Transliteration Scheme (of several versions). Useful for NLP experiments where latin script is preferred.

Supported Modules

1. bw2utf and utf2bw: Classical Buckwalter transliteration.
2. bw2utfsafe and utf2bwsafe: Safer version of classical Buckwalter transliteration. Instead of symbols, it uses accented latin character. The output is still in UTF8 format.
3. qac2utf and utf2qac: An extended version of classical Buckwalter transliteration. As described in corpus.quran.com

Install

npm install aosaimy/buckwalter-transliteration

Usage

Via Command Line:

echo 'muHmd' | node main.js -t "bw2utf"

Usage: main.js -f filename -t type

Options:
  --version   Show version number                                      [boolean]
  -f          input file                      [required] [default: "/dev/stdin"]
  -t          Type of transliteration. Supported mappings: bw2utfsafe utf2bwsafe
              bw2utf utf2bw qac2utf utf2qac                           [required]
  -h, --help  Show help                                                [boolean]

In code:

var bt = require('buckwalter-transliteration')('bw2utf')
console.log(bt('muHmd'))

Test

This scripts has its own unit testing. You can add yours to test/ folder. To run unit tests, run npm test.