A reading text analysis tool
Project description
Text analysis tool written in Python 3.
Features
Drat is a tool that analyzes reading texts and produces a brief report which gives a readability score and the number of uncommon words (according to the General Service List) in the text. It also lists all of these uncommon words (if you choose the verbose option).
Drat supports docx, odt, ods, odp files as well as text files and urls.
You can also analyze multiple texts / links by creating a text file with the filenames / links written in it.
Use
drat [-h] [-v] [-w wordlist-file] file-or-url
multiple files, or urls, can be analyzed
the files can be text files, docx files, or odf files
a list of urls, or files, written in a text file can be redirected to drat: e.g., drat < list-of-urls.txt
-w use an additional wordlist(s)
This wordlist needs to be a text file with each word on a separate line
More than one wordlist can be used
For example, the following command will analyze an office (Writer) document called ‘NorwegianBlue.odt’:
drat NorwegianBlue.odt
The -w option will let you filter out additional words:
drat -w euphemisms_death.txt NorwegianBlue.odt
And this command will download the following url and analyze the text in it:
drat http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode24.htm
It is also possible to analyze several files in one command:
drat CastleAaaarrrggh.txt LuvinmyTummy.docx PininFjords.odt
The following command uses a text file with links in it (one link per line) and parses the links in it:
drat < list-of-urls.txt
Adding the -v option to any of the above commands will give you a list of the uncommon words.
Todo
More support for analyzing the complexity of texts.
Support other languages.
Dependencies
Python3 and requests.
Name
Drat is a recursive acronym which either stands for Drat is a Reading Analysis Tool or Drat is a Rabid Assessor of Texts.
License
Drat is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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