Compile stats for text and HTML docs with Text Stat

Posted Mar 21st 2008 6:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Open Source

Most word processors will give you some basic statistics about documents you're working on, like a word count. But what if you want to see how many words, paragraphcs, sentences, characters, and spaces are in a text-based document without opening it up in a word processor?

Text Stat is a lightweight, open source Windows application that will let you analyze any TXT or HTML file. In addition to those stats, you Text Stat will spit out a whole bunch of numbers that you'll probably never need to know, including the average number of syllables per word, the average number of words per sentence, and a Flesch score, which basically tells you how difficult the article is to read.
[via gHacks]

Tags: html, statistics, text, text-stat, words

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-21-2008 @ 6:16PM

Todd said...

Whoa cool!

I have people I pay to write blog posts so this is a very useful tool for me. Thanks!

3-21-2008 @ 8:18PM

quanta said...

Pretty neat, although some people might remember how all these features were built into WordPerfect 6.0 (with Grammatik!) back in the mid-1990s.

The more things change...

3-22-2008 @ 11:47AM

Peter N Roth said...

And, with fewer statistics, in Microsoft Word as far back as I can remember. Alt+F8 "Statistics"

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