proces
text preprocess.
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes, if you need lightweight Chinese text preprocessing with no external dependencies and can tolerate dormant maintenance. The library is small, permissively licensed, and handles common normalization tasks. No, if you require active maintenance, bug fixes, or support for edge cases—the last update was 2023-09-09. Consider it a stable utility for straightforward preprocessing rather than a foundation for production systems.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python 3.6 or later.
- Installation is straightforward with no runtime dependencies.
- The package is dormant—last updated 2023-09-09, over a year ago—so expect no active maintenance or bug fixes going forward.
License · maintenance · safety
MIT License (permissive) — MIT License permits free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions, making it safe to adopt from a licensing standpoint.
last release 2023-09-09 (1070 days) · last repo commit 2023-09-09 · 5 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 284,077 downloads/mo, #8,069 on PyPI
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Verify before relying
pip install proces
from proces import preprocess
result = preprocess("Today, 你 幹 什 麼 ！")
# result: today,你干什么!- Whether the package handles edge cases in Chinese character conversion reliably, given dormant maintenance status.
- Performance characteristics on large text corpora or streaming input.
- Completeness of the sensitive information masking (phone, address) against real-world formats.
What it is and what it does
Proces is a text preprocessing library focused on cleaning and normalizing text, particularly for Chinese language content. It provides a pipeline-based approach where you can apply transformations in sequence—such as removing whitespace, converting uppercase to lowercase, converting traditional Chinese characters to simplified, and converting full-width punctuation to half-width—or select individual transformations as needed. The library also includes utilities for masking sensitive information like phone numbers and addresses.
The package has no external runtime dependencies, making installation lightweight. However, it has been dormant since 2023-09-09, with no recent commits or active maintenance. It supports Python 3.6 through 3.9 and is positioned as a utility for developers working with Chinese text or building preprocessing pipelines that require basic text normalization steps.
Use it for
- Normalize mixed-case, mixed-width Chinese text before feeding it into NLP models or search systems.
- Remove or mask personally identifiable information like phone numbers and addresses from user-generated text.
- Clean whitespace and standardize punctuation in Chinese documents as a preprocessing step for text analysis.
- Convert traditional Chinese characters to simplified form in bulk text processing workflows.
- Build a text cleaning pipeline by composing individual transformation functions for domain-specific preprocessing.
Worth the install?
AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page. Verify before relying on it.
Yes, if you need lightweight Chinese text preprocessing with no external dependencies and can tolerate dormant maintenance.
The library is small, permissively licensed, and handles common normalization tasks. No, if you require active maintenance, bug fixes, or support for edge cases—the last update was 2023-09-09. Consider it a stable utility for straightforward preprocessing rather than a foundation for production systems.
Install
proces on PyPI
Before you install
Installation is straightforward with no runtime dependencies. The package is dormant—last updated 2023-09-09, over a year ago—so expect no active maintenance or bug fixes going forward.
Requires Python 3.6 or later.
License in practice
MIT License permits free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions, making it safe to adopt from a licensing standpoint.
Quickstart
pip install proces
from proces import preprocess
result = preprocess("Today, 你 幹 什 麼 ！")
# result: today,你干什么!Verify before relying
- Whether the package handles edge cases in Chinese character conversion reliably, given dormant maintenance status.
- Performance characteristics on large text corpora or streaming input.
- Completeness of the sensitive information masking (phone, address) against real-world formats.
Package facts
| License | MIT License permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.6 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | None |
| Maintenance | Dormant 1,070 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 284,077 / month, #8,069 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | License :: OSI Approved :: MIT LicenseOperating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9 |
Evidence: proces-0.1.7-py3-none-any.whl
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