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