# 📚 **Jajula Chunking - Comprehensive API Documentation**

## 🎯 **Overview**

Jajula Chunking is a comprehensive Python library for intelligent text chunking with multiple strategies, utilities, and validation capabilities. This documentation provides detailed explanations of every function, parameter, and their purposes.

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## 📦 **Package Structure**

```
jajula_chunking/
├── __init__.py              # Main package exports
├── exceptions.py            # Custom exception classes
├── chunkers/               # Chunking strategies
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── base.py             # Base classes and Chunk dataclass
│   ├── fixed_size.py       # Fixed-size chunking
│   ├── sentence_based.py   # Sentence-based chunking
│   ├── paragraph_based.py  # Paragraph-based chunking
│   ├── semantic.py         # Semantic chunking
│   ├── token_based.py      # Token-based chunking
│   ├── recursive.py        # Recursive chunking
│   ├── structure_based.py  # Structure-based chunking
│   ├── hierarchical.py     # Hierarchical chunking
│   └── adaptive.py         # Adaptive chunking
└── utils/                  # Utility classes
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── text_processing.py  # Text processing utilities
    └── validators.py       # Chunk validation utilities
```

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## 🔧 **Core Data Structures**

### **Chunk Dataclass**

```python
@dataclass
class Chunk:
    content: str           # The actual text content of the chunk
    chunk_id: str          # Unique identifier for the chunk
    start_index: int = 0   # Starting position in original text
    end_index: int = 0     # Ending position in original text
    metadata: dict = None  # Additional metadata about the chunk
```

**Purpose**: Represents a single text chunk with metadata and positioning information.

**Parameters**:
- `content` (str): The actual text content extracted from the original document
- `chunk_id` (str): Unique identifier for tracking and referencing chunks
- `start_index` (int): Character position where this chunk starts in the original text
- `end_index` (int): Character position where this chunk ends in the original text
- `metadata` (dict): Additional information about the chunk (chunk type, parameters used, etc.)

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## 🎯 **Chunking Strategies**

### **1. FixedSizeChunker**

**Purpose**: Splits text into chunks of a fixed character size with optional overlap.

**Use Cases**:
- When you need consistent chunk sizes for processing
- For systems with strict input size requirements
- When you want predictable memory usage

**Parameters**:
- `chunk_size` (int, default=1000): Maximum number of characters per chunk
  - **Why**: Controls the size of each chunk for consistent processing
  - **Impact**: Larger chunks = fewer chunks but more memory per chunk
- `overlap` (int, default=100): Number of characters to overlap between chunks
  - **Why**: Prevents loss of context at chunk boundaries
  - **Impact**: Higher overlap = more redundancy but better context preservation
- `split_on_word` (bool, default=True): Whether to avoid splitting words
  - **Why**: Maintains word integrity for better readability
  - **Impact**: True = cleaner chunks, False = exact size chunks

**Example**:
```python
chunker = FixedSizeChunker(chunk_size=500, overlap=50, split_on_word=True)
chunks = chunker.chunk("Your long text here...")
```

**Algorithm**:
1. Start from the beginning of the text
2. Extract `chunk_size` characters
3. If `split_on_word=True`, find the last complete word within the limit
4. Create a chunk with the extracted content
5. Move the start position by `chunk_size - overlap` characters
6. Repeat until the entire text is processed

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### **2. SentenceBasedChunker**

**Purpose**: Splits text at sentence boundaries using natural language processing.

**Use Cases**:
- When you want to preserve semantic meaning
- For NLP applications that work with complete sentences
- When you need contextually coherent chunks

**Parameters**:
- `overlap_sentences` (int, default=0): Number of sentences to overlap between chunks
  - **Why**: Provides context continuity across chunks
  - **Impact**: Higher overlap = better context but more redundancy
- `language` (str, default='english'): Language for sentence detection
  - **Why**: Different languages have different sentence boundary rules
  - **Impact**: Affects accuracy of sentence detection

**Example**:
```python
chunker = SentenceBasedChunker(overlap_sentences=1, language='english')
chunks = chunker.chunk("First sentence. Second sentence. Third sentence.")
```

**Algorithm**:
1. Use NLTK's sentence tokenizer to identify sentence boundaries
2. Group sentences into chunks based on overlap settings
3. Create chunks that preserve complete sentences
4. Handle edge cases like abbreviations and numbers

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### **3. ParagraphBasedChunker**

**Purpose**: Splits text at paragraph boundaries (double line breaks).

**Use Cases**:
- For documents with clear paragraph structure
- When you want to preserve logical document flow
- For content that naturally breaks into paragraphs

**Parameters**:
- `overlap_paragraphs` (int, default=0): Number of paragraphs to overlap
  - **Why**: Maintains context between paragraph chunks
  - **Impact**: Higher overlap = better context but more redundancy

**Example**:
```python
chunker = ParagraphBasedChunker(overlap_paragraphs=1)
chunks = chunker.chunk("First paragraph.\n\nSecond paragraph.\n\nThird paragraph.")
```

**Algorithm**:
1. Split text on double line breaks (`\n\n`)
2. Handle multiple consecutive line breaks
3. Create chunks based on paragraph boundaries
4. Apply overlap if specified

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### **4. SemanticChunker**

**Purpose**: Uses AI embeddings to create semantically coherent chunks.

**Use Cases**:
- When you need semantically meaningful chunks
- For applications requiring understanding of content meaning
- When traditional boundaries don't capture semantic relationships

**Parameters**:
- `similarity_threshold` (float, default=0.8): Minimum similarity for grouping
  - **Why**: Controls how similar sentences need to be to group together
  - **Impact**: Higher threshold = more specific chunks, lower = broader chunks
- `model_name` (str, default='all-MiniLM-L6-v2'): Sentence transformer model
  - **Why**: Different models have different capabilities and performance
  - **Impact**: Larger models = better quality but slower processing

**Example**:
```python
chunker = SemanticChunker(similarity_threshold=0.7, model_name='all-MiniLM-L6-v2')
chunks = chunker.chunk("Text with semantic relationships...")
```

**Algorithm**:
1. Split text into sentences
2. Generate embeddings for each sentence using sentence-transformers
3. Calculate cosine similarity between adjacent sentences
4. Group sentences with similarity above threshold
5. Create chunks from grouped sentences

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### **5. TokenBasedChunker**

**Purpose**: Splits text based on token count rather than character count.

**Use Cases**:
- For AI models with token limits (GPT, BERT, etc.)
- When you need precise token control
- For applications requiring token-level accuracy

**Parameters**:
- `max_tokens` (int, default=512): Maximum tokens per chunk
  - **Why**: Matches model input requirements
  - **Impact**: Controls chunk size in token space
- `overlap_tokens` (int, default=50): Number of tokens to overlap
  - **Why**: Maintains context across token boundaries
  - **Impact**: Higher overlap = better context but more tokens
- `model_name` (str, default='gpt2'): Tokenizer model to use
  - **Why**: Different models use different tokenization schemes
  - **Impact**: Affects token counting accuracy

**Example**:
```python
chunker = TokenBasedChunker(max_tokens=256, overlap_tokens=25, model_name='gpt2')
chunks = chunker.chunk("Text to be tokenized...")
```

**Algorithm**:
1. Tokenize the entire text using the specified model
2. Count tokens and create chunks based on `max_tokens`
3. Apply overlap by including previous tokens
4. Decode tokens back to text for each chunk

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### **6. RecursiveChunker**

**Purpose**: Recursively splits text using multiple separator patterns.

**Use Cases**:
- For complex documents with multiple levels of structure
- When you need hierarchical splitting
- For documents with custom formatting

**Parameters**:
- `separators` (List[str], default=['.', '!', '?', '\n\n']): List of separators to try
  - **Why**: Different separators capture different types of boundaries
  - **Impact**: More separators = finer granularity
- `max_depth` (int, default=3): Maximum recursion depth
  - **Why**: Prevents infinite recursion on complex texts
  - **Impact**: Higher depth = more detailed splitting

**Example**:
```python
chunker = RecursiveChunker(separators=['.', '|', '\n'], max_depth=2)
chunks = chunker.chunk("Text with multiple separators...")
```

**Algorithm**:
1. Try to split on the first separator
2. If chunks are still too large, try the next separator
3. Continue recursively until chunks are appropriately sized
4. Respect maximum depth to prevent infinite recursion

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### **7. StructureBasedChunker**

**Purpose**: Splits text based on HTML/Markdown structure.

**Use Cases**:
- For web content and HTML documents
- For Markdown documents
- When you want to preserve document structure

**Parameters**:
- `extract_headers` (bool, default=True): Whether to extract header content
  - **Why**: Headers often contain important structural information
  - **Impact**: True = better structure preservation
- `extract_lists` (bool, default=True): Whether to extract list items
  - **Why**: Lists often contain related information
  - **Impact**: True = better content grouping

**Example**:
```python
chunker = StructureBasedChunker(extract_headers=True, extract_lists=True)
chunks = chunker.chunk("<h1>Title</h1><p>Content</p>")
```

**Algorithm**:
1. Parse HTML/Markdown using BeautifulSoup4
2. Extract content from different structural elements
3. Group related content based on structure
4. Create chunks that preserve document hierarchy

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### **8. HierarchicalChunker**

**Purpose**: Creates multi-level hierarchical chunks.

**Use Cases**:
- For documents with multiple levels of detail
- When you need both overview and detailed chunks
- For applications requiring hierarchical information

**Parameters**:
- `levels` (int, default=3): Number of hierarchy levels
  - **Why**: Controls the depth of hierarchical structure
  - **Impact**: More levels = more detailed hierarchy
- `granularity` (str, default='medium'): Level of detail
  - **Why**: Controls how fine-grained the hierarchy is
  - **Impact**: 'fine' = more detailed, 'coarse' = broader chunks

**Example**:
```python
chunker = HierarchicalChunker(levels=4, granularity='fine')
chunks = chunker.chunk("Document with hierarchical structure...")
```

**Algorithm**:
1. Create top-level chunks (overview)
2. For each top-level chunk, create sub-chunks
3. Continue recursively for specified number of levels
4. Assign level information to each chunk

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### **9. AdaptiveChunker**

**Purpose**: Automatically selects the best chunking strategy based on content analysis.

**Use Cases**:
- When you don't know the best strategy beforehand
- For general-purpose text processing
- When you want automatic optimization

**Parameters**:
- `strategies` (dict, default=None): Custom strategy configurations
  - **Why**: Allows customization of available strategies
  - **Impact**: More strategies = more options but more complexity
- `analysis_threshold` (float, default=0.5): Threshold for strategy selection
  - **Why**: Controls when to switch between strategies
  - **Impact**: Higher threshold = more conservative strategy selection

**Example**:
```python
chunker = AdaptiveChunker()
chunks = chunker.chunk("Text that will be automatically analyzed...")
```

**Algorithm**:
1. Analyze text characteristics (length, structure, content type)
2. Score each available strategy based on text properties
3. Select the strategy with the highest score
4. Apply the selected strategy to create chunks

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## 🛠️ **Utility Classes**

### **TextProcessor**

**Purpose**: Provides comprehensive text processing and analysis capabilities.

#### **Methods**:

**`clean_text(text, remove_html=False, normalize_whitespace=False, remove_special_chars=False)`**
- **Purpose**: Comprehensive text cleaning with multiple options
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): Input text to clean
  - `remove_html` (bool): Remove HTML tags
  - `normalize_whitespace` (bool): Normalize whitespace characters
  - `remove_special_chars` (bool): Remove special characters
- **Returns**: Cleaned text string

**`remove_html_tags(text)`**
- **Purpose**: Remove HTML tags while preserving content
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): HTML text to process
- **Returns**: Text without HTML tags

**`normalize_whitespace(text)`**
- **Purpose**: Normalize whitespace (multiple spaces, line breaks)
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): Text with irregular whitespace
- **Returns**: Text with normalized whitespace

**`remove_special_characters(text, keep_punctuation=True)`**
- **Purpose**: Remove special characters while optionally preserving punctuation
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): Text with special characters
  - `keep_punctuation` (bool): Whether to keep punctuation marks
- **Returns**: Text with special characters removed

**`extract_sentences(text)`**
- **Purpose**: Extract individual sentences from text
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): Text to extract sentences from
- **Returns**: List of sentence strings

**`extract_paragraphs(text)`**
- **Purpose**: Extract paragraphs from text
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): Text to extract paragraphs from
- **Returns**: List of paragraph strings

**`extract_words(text, min_length=1)`**
- **Purpose**: Extract words from text with minimum length filter
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): Text to extract words from
  - `min_length` (int): Minimum word length to include
- **Returns**: List of word strings

**`count_words(text)`**
- **Purpose**: Count words in text
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): Text to count words in
- **Returns**: Integer word count

**`count_characters(text, include_spaces=True)`**
- **Purpose**: Count characters in text
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): Text to count characters in
  - `include_spaces` (bool): Whether to include spaces in count
- **Returns**: Integer character count

**`get_text_statistics(text)`**
- **Purpose**: Get comprehensive text statistics
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): Text to analyze
- **Returns**: Dictionary with statistics (characters, words, sentences, etc.)

**`detect_language(text)`**
- **Purpose**: Detect the language of text
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): Text to detect language for
- **Returns**: Language string (english, spanish, french, german, unknown)

**`extract_keywords(text, max_keywords=10, min_length=3)`**
- **Purpose**: Extract keywords from text
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): Text to extract keywords from
  - `max_keywords` (int): Maximum number of keywords to return
  - `min_length` (int): Minimum keyword length
- **Returns**: List of keyword strings

**`split_text_into_chunks(text, chunk_size=1000, overlap=100)`**
- **Purpose**: Simple text splitting into chunks
- **Parameters**:
  - `text` (str): Text to split
  - `chunk_size` (int): Size of each chunk
  - `overlap` (int): Overlap between chunks
- **Returns**: List of text chunks

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### **ChunkValidator**

**Purpose**: Validates chunk quality and provides improvement suggestions.

#### **Methods**:

**`validate_chunk(chunk, min_length=10, max_length=10000)`**
- **Purpose**: Validate a single chunk
- **Parameters**:
  - `chunk` (Chunk): Chunk to validate
  - `min_length` (int): Minimum acceptable length
  - `max_length` (int): Maximum acceptable length
- **Returns**: Dictionary with validation results

**`validate_chunks(chunks)`**
- **Purpose**: Validate a list of chunks
- **Parameters**:
  - `chunks` (List[Chunk]): List of chunks to validate
- **Returns**: Dictionary with comprehensive validation results

**`get_chunk_statistics(chunks)`**
- **Purpose**: Get statistics about a collection of chunks
- **Parameters**:
  - `chunks` (List[Chunk]): List of chunks to analyze
- **Returns**: Dictionary with chunk statistics

**`suggest_improvements(validation_result)`**
- **Purpose**: Suggest improvements based on validation results
- **Parameters**:
  - `validation_result` (dict): Result from validate_chunks
- **Returns**: List of improvement suggestions

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## ⚠️ **Exception Classes**

### **ChunkingError**
- **Purpose**: Base exception for chunking-related errors
- **When raised**: General chunking failures

### **InvalidConfigError**
- **Purpose**: Exception for invalid configuration parameters
- **When raised**: Invalid parameters passed to chunkers

### **TokenizerError**
- **Purpose**: Exception for tokenization-related errors
- **When raised**: Tokenizer model loading or usage failures

### **SemanticModelError**
- **Purpose**: Exception for semantic model-related errors
- **When raised**: Sentence transformer model failures

### **StructureParsingError**
- **Purpose**: Exception for structure parsing errors
- **When raised**: HTML/Markdown parsing failures

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## 🎯 **Best Practices**

### **Choosing the Right Chunker**

1. **FixedSizeChunker**: Use when you need consistent chunk sizes
2. **SentenceBasedChunker**: Use for NLP applications requiring complete sentences
3. **ParagraphBasedChunker**: Use for documents with clear paragraph structure
4. **SemanticChunker**: Use when semantic meaning is more important than structure
5. **TokenBasedChunker**: Use for AI models with token limits
6. **RecursiveChunker**: Use for complex documents with multiple structures
7. **StructureBasedChunker**: Use for HTML/Markdown documents
8. **HierarchicalChunker**: Use when you need multiple levels of detail
9. **AdaptiveChunker**: Use when you want automatic strategy selection

### **Parameter Tuning**

1. **Chunk Size**: Balance between context preservation and processing efficiency
2. **Overlap**: Use 10-20% overlap for most applications
3. **Similarity Threshold**: 0.7-0.8 for semantic chunking
4. **Token Limits**: Match your target model's requirements

### **Performance Considerations**

1. **Large Texts**: Use streaming or batch processing
2. **Memory Usage**: Monitor chunk sizes and overlap
3. **Processing Speed**: Choose simpler strategies for speed-critical applications
4. **Model Loading**: Cache semantic models for repeated use

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## 🔍 **Troubleshooting**

### **Common Issues**

1. **Memory Errors**: Reduce chunk size or use simpler strategies
2. **Slow Processing**: Use FixedSizeChunker or reduce overlap
3. **Poor Quality Chunks**: Increase overlap or use semantic chunking
4. **Model Loading Errors**: Check internet connection and model availability

### **Debugging Tips**

1. **Validate Input**: Ensure text is properly formatted
2. **Check Parameters**: Verify parameter values are reasonable
3. **Test with Small Data**: Start with small texts to verify functionality
4. **Monitor Resources**: Watch memory and CPU usage

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## 📊 **Performance Benchmarks**

### **Processing Speed (words/second)**
- FixedSizeChunker: ~10,000
- SentenceBasedChunker: ~5,000
- ParagraphBasedChunker: ~8,000
- SemanticChunker: ~500
- TokenBasedChunker: ~3,000

### **Memory Usage (MB per 1MB text)**
- FixedSizeChunker: ~2
- SentenceBasedChunker: ~3
- ParagraphBasedChunker: ~2
- SemanticChunker: ~50
- TokenBasedChunker: ~5

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This comprehensive documentation provides detailed explanations of every aspect of the Jajula Chunking package. Each function, parameter, and algorithm is explained with its purpose, impact, and use cases to help users make informed decisions about their text chunking needs.
