import re
import string


def clean_string(text):
    """
    This function takes in a string and performs a series of text cleaning operations.

    Args:
        text (str): The text to be cleaned. This is expected to be a string.

    Returns:
        cleaned_text (str): The cleaned text after all the cleaning operations
        have been performed.
    """
    # Replacement of newline characters:
    text = text.replace("\n", " ")

    # Stripping and reducing multiple spaces to single:
    cleaned_text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text.strip())

    # Removing backslashes:
    cleaned_text = cleaned_text.replace("\\", "")

    # Replacing hash characters:
    cleaned_text = cleaned_text.replace("#", " ")

    # Eliminating consecutive non-alphanumeric characters:
    # This regex identifies consecutive non-alphanumeric characters (i.e., not
    # a word character [a-zA-Z0-9_] and not a whitespace) in the string
    # and replaces each group of such characters with a single occurrence of
    # that character.
    # For example, "!!! hello !!!" would become "! hello !".
    cleaned_text = re.sub(r"([^\w\s])\1*", r"\1", cleaned_text)

    return cleaned_text


def is_readable(s):
    """
    Heuristic to determine if a string is "readable" (mostly contains printable characters and forms meaningful words)

    :param s: string
    :return: True if the string is more than 95% printable.
    """
    printable_ratio = sum(c in string.printable for c in s) / len(s)
    return printable_ratio > 0.95  # 95% of characters are printable