Digital Humanities Python Packages

pyzotero

Pyzotero: a Python client for the Zotero API

isnady

Hadith search with isnad chains, narrators and their reliability, the scholars of hadith and deep statistics — Sunni and Shia sources, Arabic, Turkish and English. Desktop app (portable), command line and Python library.

dhlab

DHLAB is a library of python modules for accessing text and pictures at the National Library of Norway.

mapreader

A computer vision pipeline for exploring and analyzing images at scale

camat

MEI-centered tools for symbolic music editing, conversion, parsing, analysis, and rendering.

denckring

A Python library of constrained and experimental writing procedures — Oulipo and beyond — where every procedure pairs a generator with a validator that scores its own output. 158 catalogued, 124 implemented and validated. Python API, CLI and MCP server; English, German, French.

pageledger

Auditable page-level run ledger for OCR and document extraction

synesis

Synesis is a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) compiler that transforms qualitative research annotations into canonical knowledge structures.

chandassu

Chandassu: First Python Library for Global Metrical Poetry

renoir-wikiart

A lightweight Python package for teaching computational methods through art history. Extract and analyze artist-specific works from WikiArt with built-in visualizations. Designed for digital humanities and computational design courses. Features genre/style analysis, matplotlib integration, and pedagogical clarity over algorithmic complexity.

kalmus

KALMUS Color Toolkit for color analysis and visualization in film studies.

pystylometry

Comprehensive Python toolkit for stylometry

cropcatcher

CropCatcher: locate a query image inside candidate images using classical local feature matching algorithms, with IIIF support

synthpopcan

Build, inspect, and validate modelled Canadian households and people for reproducible research.

thunderdots

ThunderDoTS – Python package for scrapping and convert DTS ressources via DoTS

booknlp

Natural language processing pipeline for book-length documents (archival Java version; for current Python version, see: https://github.com/booknlp/booknlp)

atlaspi-mcp

Structured historical geographic database built for AI agents

implicit-word-network

Extract and explore (contextual) implicit entity networks from text corpora

ads-bib

Pipeline for querying and turning NASA's ADS publications metadata into curated, analysis-ready datasets, topic maps, and citation networks.

fojin-mcp

Buddhist Digital Text Platform — 10,500+ texts, 613 sources, trilingual cross-canon, AI Q&A (RAG), knowledge graph, full-text search

color-analysis-tool

Deterministic, color-managed color analysis for computational color research

undate

A Python library for working with fuzzy, mixed-precision, or otherwise uncertain dates in multiple calendars

regreek

Recover polytonic Unicode Greek from pre-Unicode font encodings (Graeca, SPIonic, Bwgrkl, Odyssea…) in scholarly PDFs and text — deterministic, evidence-derived, zero fabrication

mesomath

A robust sexagesimal and metrological engine for Babylonian mathematics. From the Eduba to the Jupyter Notebook.