DevonThink alternative?

Posted by Franz Grieser
Aug 27, 2010 at 12:48 PM

Hugh

>Curiously the single piece of pure desktop
>text-analysis software that I’d previously heard of, Textanz, isn’t mentioned in
>the list on the second link. Textanz is aimed at writers, not corporate or
>governmental data-miners, and is on the PC platform. It was last updated in 2009; a
>note on its website placed in 2010 says that a cross-platform Java version is being
>developed, but as the note spells its own software “Textans”, I don’t have high
>hopes!

I wouldn’t count Textanz as a text-analysis tool. What it does

- create a concordance (= a list of words used in a text)
- create a list of frequently used words and phrases
- show how often each word is used
- show where in the text a selected word is used

That is pretty useful for writers: I use the tool for checking my texts for repetitions.

But it’s not really what I consider text ANALYSIS.

Just my 2 cents.

Franz