Memes

Script to convert images to memes.

Usage

Prerequisites

• argparse==1.1
• json==2.0.9
• PILLOW==5.1.0

Structure

The folder data will have folders within it which will represent categories. Each category folder will have a name and a file “data.txt” within it which will hold the category detail. Within each category, there can be sub-categories or images. Images can have any descriptive name say img.jpg . Along with the image, there maybe another file img.json which will contain the image data.

Format of img.json

{
    "description": "img_description"
}

Format of memes.json

{
    "mode": "generation_mode",
    "format": "meme_rating",
    "description": "meme_description",
    "rating": 0
}

Installation

Project memes has been ported to package, now it can be installed using the following command from the memes directory.

pip install --editable .

This will install the memes project, Now it can be invoked using openmemes.

Preprocessing

Images in data folder can be preprocessed by running the following command.

openmemes --preprocess=1 --data="path" --width=600

Preprocessed images are scaled according to the width provided and converted to jpg format.

Indexing

Index script maintains index.json which contains the description of images present in the data. Description varies depending on the presence of img.json.

python index_data.py

To force memedb indexing

openmemes --force_index=1

Searching

With searchp script available under the search switch in package, now you can search for images present index json file. Current version compares the search string to the description of images.

There are two types of search:

• Index - Displays image in accordance with input .Can be enabled by setting index_search to 1
• String - Displays image from search string entered .Enabled by default.

Each of the types have two modes:

• Command Line

  openmemes --search=1 --mode=0 --search_str=string
  openmemes --search=1 --mode=0 --index_search=1 --search_idx=index

• Interactive

  openmemes --search=1 --mode=1

  Recommendation

  The script has ability to recommend memes based on the meme location and the word match in the description of the meme.

  openmemes --recommend=1 --meme=image_path

Meme Generation

The current version of the script has the ability to create memes in four different formats using custom user defined images. The script can be either in interactive or command line depending on chosen mode.

Format 1

Text can be added either at the top type 1, at the bottom type 2, or at both type 3. See more

openmemes --generate=1 --mode=0 --format=1 --image1=path --text1=text

Format 2

Two images are merged vertically and texts can be added to the top of image 1 and to the bottom of image 2. See more

openmemes --generate=1 --mode=0 --format=2 --image1=path --image2=path --text1=text --text2=text

Format 3

Two images are merged horizontally and texts appear in four styles type 1, type 2, type 3, type 4. See more

openmemes --generate=1 --mode=0 --format=3 --image1=path --image2 =path --text1=text --text2=text

Above formats can also be accessed interactively using mode=1

openmemes --generate=1 --mode=1 --format=1

Ratings

Meme_generation also supports ratings now , and these ratings can be used subjectively for setting trending memes and creating recommendations.

--generate=1 --mode=0 --format=3 --image1=path --image2 =path --text1=text --text2=text --rating=value_from_0_to_5

Description

At the time of meme generation a description can be assigned to the meme for lookup and classification based use cases.

--generate=1 --mode=0 --format=3 --image1=path --image2 =path --text1=text --text2=text --description=description_text

Testing

The project can be tested for errors using the command

openmemes --test=1 --module=<module_name>

if all services are to be tested, --module argument is not required For testing a specific service set it to module args. example-

openmemes --test=1 --module=generate

Response - If something fails, expected point of error is also mentioned Example -

• Resolve - recommendation.py [ ], means check all part of recommendation.py file
• Resolve - meme_generator[start()],formats/format2 means error is expected in start() function of meme_generator and formats/format2

Note

Even after porting to package, all the functionalities can be accessed using the bridge.py file without installation

python bridge.py <option-switch>=1 <arguments>

Features

• Use the generated meme to set as desktop background.

# Under development. To try the script run:
python utilities.py "<image-path>"