If we use some transcripts of movies (i.e., example.txt), we can get the following word clouds.

It creates the word cloud for Chinese text corpus. The layout and color of the word cloud is fit to the background templates (accept .png and .jpg files).

First, the input text is tokenized into different words. Second, stopwods will be filtered before we count the frequency. In the end, word clouds based on different background templates are generated. The output files are generated and named based on the templage names.

|-ChineseWordCloud
  |-create_word_cloud.py
  |-data
    |-stopwords.txt
    |-templates
      |-love.png
      |-color_love.png
  |-fonts
    |-STFangSong.ttf

Install the required packages through pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

The input file can be specified in the command line as follows.

python create_word_cloud.py example.txt

The default output will be

love_example.png
color_love_example.png

Please put your new pictures under ./data/templates/. Both png and jpeg files are accepted.

Please modify the font_filename in the python script.

This is a part of 2017 birthday gifts to my wife :).