Budou
Budou is an auto organizer tool for beautiful line breaking in CJK
Budou is a Python library developed by Google to improve web typography for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) languages by producing semantically meaningful line breaks. Unlike English, CJK scripts lack spaces or hyphenation cues, often resulting in awkward or unreadable text wrapping on web pages. Budou addresses this issue by segmenting sentences into logical lexical chunks and wrapping each chunk in non-breaking HTML <span> tags. These spans can be styled with CSS to ensure smooth, visually coherent line breaks without splitting words or phrases. The tool supports multiple segmentation backends, including Google Cloud Natural Language API, MeCab, and TinySegmenter, enabling flexibility for both cloud-based and offline processing. ...