Tools for analyzing digital text and generating quantitative and qualitative reports.
Voyant: a browser-based interface that analyzes any imported text and generates collocates and line graphs, word clouds, most frequent words by section, etc. No account or sign-up needed. Voyant is “designed to make it easy for you to work with your own text or collection of texts in a variety of formats, including plain text, …
Dedoose: a cross-platform app for analyzing qualitative and mixed methods research with text, photos, audio, videos, spreadsheet data. Paid (subscription model).
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) softwares and platforms enable the decoding of images of typed, written, or handwritten text into electronically recognizable text. OCR enables readers who use assistive technology to access the content in documents such as scanned PDFs. *Note: If you use another scanner that generates image files, you can use OCR software to convert it …
Hemingway: a text editor designed to help improve your writing by analyzing its readability and making grammatical suggestions. Available as a desktop software (paid) or as an online platform (free).
Grammarly: a textual analysis tool that offers suggestions to improve your writing. It reviews punctuation, spelling, grammar, formatting, and speech conventions. Available as a desktop app or browser extension. Free/Paid.
