# wiseio/paratext

A library for reading text files over multiple cores.

Repository: https://github.com/wiseio/paratext
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/paratext
Language: C++
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-09-05T08:12:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3784, "days_push": 1093, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1052, forks 99 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:23.245559+00:00)

## What it is
ParaText is a C++ library for reading text files in parallel across multiple cores, with Python bindings and a fast CSV reader. It can load CSV files directly into Pandas DataFrames with no dependencies beyond the C++ standard library.

## Use cases
- read large csv files faster than pandas
- parse text files in parallel on multicore machines
- load csv into pandas dataframe quickly
- speed up csv ingestion for data science pipelines
- read big delimited text files with python

## When to choose
- you need faster CSV loading than pandas' built-in reader
- you work with very large text/CSV files on multi-core machines
- you want a dependency-free C++ parsing library with Python bindings

## When to avoid
- you need actively developed features or recent Python version support
- your files are small and pandas read_csv is fast enough
- you need formats beyond CSV/text files

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: parser, etl, data-science
- domain: data-science, files, developer-tools
- platform: cpp, python, windows, cross-platform
- tags: csv-reader, parallel-io, multicore, pandas, python-bindings, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- wiseio/paratext (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:23.245559+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:59:46.710211+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wiseio/paratext (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:23.245559+00:00, sha 0cd8fe604036)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.