TokenizerFactory.java

/**
 * 
 */
package edu.berkeley.nlp.tokenizer;


import java.io.Reader;
import java.util.Iterator;

/** A TokenizerFactory is used to convert a java.io.Reader
 *  into a Tokenizer (or an Iterator) over the Objects represented by the text
 *  in the java.io.Reader.  It's mainly a convenience, since you could cast
 *  down anyway.
 *
 *  @author Christopher Manning
 */
public interface TokenizerFactory {

  public Iterator getIterator (java.io.Reader r) ;
  public Tokenizer getTokenizer (Reader r);

}