This project is going to help you generate a pdf file automatically with a input english essay, fiction or just a sentence. The pdf file will contain the unknown words in the sentence with their meanings and examples from high-quality English-English dictionary. We hope that this project will help you to improve your English skills and save your time for English intensive reading exercises.

We use the COCA dataset to check the frequency of the words, and then filter the high frequency words in default. You can also set the frequency threshold or the filtering algorithm by yourself.

You need to install Conda first. Then create a new environment and install the requirements. I also highly recommend you install texlive, which is used to generate the pdf file. Or you can use Overleaf for tex compiling.

conda create -n language python=3.8
pip install -r requirements.txt
conda install -c conda-forge weasyprint

If you meet the following error:

TypeError: openssl_md5() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)

Please follow the error information and change the lines using md5 function:

in md5(description_string).