Voyant Tools

Voyant Tools is a web-based text analysis, reading and visualization environment. Developed by a small team of digital humanities scholars led by Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell, Voyant Tools is designed for a very wide range of applications and users, from students to researchers and journalists to market analysts. It strives to balance user-friendliness with a range of analytic and interpretive functions.

Some of the important features of Voyant Tools include:

importing documents in various formats (plain text, HTML, XML, PDF, RTF, MS Word, ODF, etc.) several tools for studying term frequencies and distributions within documents and within a collection of documents (a corpus) a full-text reader that support very large texts and includes interactive features interaction between the the tools that facilitates navigation and exploration at diffent scales (from "close reading" to "distant reading") a mechanism for bookmarking and sharing instances of Voyant Tools (specific texts and tools) through persistent URLs access to a hosted version of Voyant Tools or a downloadable standalone version Voyant Tools is free and open source (GPLv3)