Lingua-Connect/Bible_Text_Data_collection

this is a repository that contains scripts to prepare the bible text data for the giriama to english corpus # Bible_Text_Data_collection This repository contains scripts to help extract, organise, and process Bible chapter .htm files structured by verses — and convert them into usable formats ie CSV for text processing and analysis. ## What This Project Does ### 1. Organize Files by Names Collects a list of filenames from a source folder (e.g., .txt files with Bible chapter names). Looks for .htm files with matching names in another folder. Copies (or moves) the .htm files to a destination folder for further processing. ### 2. Extract Verses from HTML Parses .htm files that have verses marked using ... . Extracts the text following each verse marker (e.g., id="V3"). Outputs each verse into a .csv file, one verse per line. ## Tools Used Python (with os, shutil, csv, and BeautifulSoup for HTML parsing) BeautifulSoup for extracting verse text from HTML