Text Reader

TextReader is a reader class that allows you to read data from text files.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
chunking_strategy	Optional[ChunkingStrategy]	FixedSizeChunking()	Strategy used to chunk documents

TextReader also accepts the base Reader constructor parameters.

Methods

read()

Reads a text file and returns a list of documents.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
file	Union[Path, IO[Any]]	Required	Path to the text file or a file-like object
name	Optional[str]	None	Name override for the resulting documents

async_read()

Async variant of read(). Accepts the same parameters.