uksiem: UK Statutory Instruments Explanatory Memorandum parser

Set up Python3 environment with pip.

Install requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt. Make sure to be using a Python3 version of pip.

First, convert the EM (Explanatory Memorandum) PDF files to text (using for example, pdftotext -layout to preserve layout), then run the uksiem parser.

The sip-circulars folder has Statutory Instrument Practice (SIP) circulars relating to the schema for Explanatory Memoranda.

em-tools and text-parser

This project additionally hosts two recent strands of related work.

• em-tools A collection of tools for building a complete repository of EM documents.

• text-parser An alternative EM document parser to uksiem. Makes use of the library pyparsing.

Follow the links for the details.