amueller/word_cloud

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A Python library for generating word clouds from text, with support for arbitrary masks, custom colors, and space-filling layout. It also ships a wordcloud_cli command-line tool for generating clouds directly from text files.

Use cases

• generate a word cloud from a text file in python
• create a wordcloud image from the command line
• make a word cloud shaped like a custom mask
• visualize word frequency in a document
• generate word clouds for Arabic or other non-Latin text
• turn a pdf into a word cloud

When to choose

• you need word cloud images in a Python project or notebook
• you want masked or color-customized word clouds
• you want a simple CLI to pipe text into a word cloud

When to avoid

• you need interactive or web-based visualizations rather than static images
• you need general text analytics beyond word frequency visualization

Facets

library · maturity stable

image-processing nlp data-visualization cli data-visualization developer-tools python cli cross-platform word-cloud text-visualization matplotlib pillow numpy natural-language-processing

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