import string


def normalize(text):
    """
    Normalizes the text to remove the capital letters and punctuations
    as they hinder textual anyalsis.
    :param text: search text
    :return: returns the normalized text.
    """
    remove_punctuation_map = dict((ord(char), None)
                                  for char in string.punctuation)
    return text.lower().translate(remove_punctuation_map)