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Word Cloud for your Name in Urdu

Word cloud is a nice library for generating fun plots with names. Here is an example I've used to generate the cloud with my name. You need to install python-arabic-reshaper,  word cloud, matplotlib, python-bidi and numpy libraries to generate the plots.

You need to install the font NotoNaskhArabic-Regular.ttf (https://github.com/frappe/fonts/blob/master/usr_share_fonts/noto/NotoNaskhArabic-Regular.ttf). This example is used in macOS.

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from wordcloud import WordCloud
from bidi.algorithm import get_display
from arabic_reshaper import ArabicReshaper

configuration = {
    "language": "Urdu"
}
reshaper = ArabicReshaper(configuration=configuration)

text = reshaper.reshape("عرفان")
text = get_display(text)


x, y = np.ogrid[:300, :300]

mask = (x - 150) ** 2 + (y - 150) ** 2 > 130 ** 2
mask = 255 * mask.astype(int)


wc = WordCloud(background_color="white",font_path='/Users/mirfan/Library/Fonts/NotoNaskhArabic-Regular.ttf', repeat=True, mask=mask)
wc.generate(text)

plt.axis("off")
plt.imshow(wc, interpolation="bilinear")
plt.savefig("irfan.png")

Check it out and make cloud with your name.

Comments

  1. Unknown9 March 2021 at 06:00

    Nice !!1

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  2. Arslan Arshad9 July 2021 at 14:06

    ModuleNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last)
    in ()
    ----> 1 from bidi.algorithm import get_display
    2 from arabic_reshaper import ArabicReshaper
    3
    4 configuration = {
    5 "language": "Urdu"

    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bidi'

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    NOTE: If your import is failing due to a missing package, you can
    manually install dependencies using either !pip or !apt.

    To view examples of installing some common dependencies, click the
    "Open Examples" button below.
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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    Replies
    1. Muhammad Irfan11 July 2021 at 09:01

      Install this package
      https://pypi.org/project/python-bidi/

      Delete
  3. Unknown22 July 2021 at 00:56

    I am retrieving urdu text from mysql table. But it is displayed in bottom to top and i want it to be displayed from top to bottom, any solution will you suggest?

    ReplyDelete
  4. Unknown22 July 2021 at 01:05

    Or python reads the urdu text in backward direction while reading it from mysql table

    ReplyDelete
  5. Muhammad Irfan22 July 2021 at 03:21

    Displayed from bottom to top? What do you mean? Which os you are using? It mostly the issue of OS due to insufficient support for Urdu.

    ReplyDelete

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