Questions tagged [text-processing]
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Text/macro expansion program
I'm looking for a simple Windows program that lets me define some macro texts that are automatically expanded when I type. Just simply "replace this string with this string".
E.g. -abc- expands to ...
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OCR for LCD Display (must deal light and shadows zones)
I see that most people use OCR for documents and license plates.
I need to solve a problem using OCR to recognize characters (numbers) in a LCD display and transform into text (after that put that ...
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Software that can convert large amount of data to md5 hash
Currently I have a 2gb database with approximately 100 million lines and I want to convert every single line to md5 hash is there a program that can do it relatively quick.
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Preprocessor for Windows, good for generating HTML files
I need a template engine (preprocessor) for Windows that allows me to define my own (very simple) language. I need it for generating html files. It should be able to make macro substitutions but also ...
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software to detect repeated text phrases (full sentence followed by identical phrase from that sentence)
Stackexchangers,
I have a couple of hundred XML texts, which contain textual repetitions of the following type:
In cases where exceptional balance of payments difficulties exist, and then for a ...
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Extracting tabular data from HTML pages
I need to examine an HTML page with a listing of multiple items (people, media files etc.) - having some elements of data per item: Links, numbers, strings etc. - and placing the results in a plain, ...
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Text classification using Python
I am doing a text classification related task in Python using NLP and SkLearn.
I need to remove random words from my text. I know I can remove stop words and punctuation using nlp. But what I am ...
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(Semantic) Highlighting of any text for improved speed reading
I'm looking for an application that is able to process the (semantic) content of a text and provides an easier-to-read output. I'm imagining an app that takes Text (e.g., in PDF format) and provides a ...
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How can I delete non-english words from text file?
I want to delete all words, which are not English, from the text file.
I have done some research about the topic on google and have found a python tool which is named pyenchant for this task. I have ...
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XML libraries for java
Please succintly summarize the licensing and vendor implementations available for:
XQuery
JAXP
XQJ
specific to Java and where the libraries can be found for build files.
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Copy & paste texts omitting leading/trailing white spaces
Looking for utility/macro/plugin to paste texts from clipboard omitting leading/trailing white spaces.
Couldn't find this feature in macros in PhraseExpress or utilities like PureText.
Thanks.
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WWW: Many pages to one?
We have a documentation/help system in the form of 'a lot of www pages (one-topic-per-page)'.
Is there any ready-to-go software/script able to change that docs to 'all-in-one-page' format?
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Real-Time Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Detection
I have a project that involves free text user input (strings of less than 80 characters) and I need to detect PII within that string. This all needs to happen in real-time as we need to send a ...
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Utility to recursively process text file templates and fill in placeholders
I search for a tool that is / can:
gratis
free from dependencies (no scripting language interpreter needed, ...)
preferably a single binary
run on Linux, optionally Windows
traverse a (sub)directory ...
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Text List Merge Program
I'm looking for a program that can combine several lists.
Must be Windows supported, completely free or freemium, has an interface and unicode supported. It should be able to add prefix, suffix and ...
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Utility to create timeline from events
Suppose I have a table (e.g. in a CSV file) of events with start and end times, and names. I want to generate a timeline, which is made up of either intervals in which there's no change (i.e. between ...
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Headline Capitalization
Background
Developers write JIRA tickets; developers do not style the ticket items consistently. We'd like to present the ticket summaries to clients, but with a consistent format.
Problem
We're ...
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Language detection at shell command
I need to detect the language of a huge amount of files, and I was wondering if there is some tool which I could use in a way similar to this, in linux command shell:
langdetector filetodetect > ...
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Getting marked up difference of two big normal texts (not source code)
How to get difference text of two ebooks converted to plain text?
They are both the same book but different editions, so much of text is exactly the same to within hyphenation and punctuation changes.
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Software to convert very, very large html file to markdown
I have a single 1.3gb html file that contains the entirety of the Encyclopedia Britannica. I want to convert it to markdown in a way that preserves subheadings, tables, and UTF-8 special characters.
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Textual authorship testing options?
There's a pretty remarkable piece of software called jstylo from Drexel University, but it appears to have been untouched for a couple of years.
Are there any comparable options to this that analyze ...
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Convert JSPWiki to XWiki
Background
Looking to convert a document written in JSPWiki format to a file written in any format supported by pandoc.
Requirements
Preferably CommonMark or basic HTML output.
No attachments.
No ...
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Is there a very simple version control tool that only uses a diff-based change log for a text file?
Parsing the change log and reconstructing an older version automatically is not a requirement. The only objective is to make everything I ever wrote and saved and potentially deleted searchable and ...
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Open source tool to extract text from developer file types
I would like to parse the text content from these developer file types and index them and make them available for my lucene search engine for search.
I would like to parse the text content from these ...
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Open source tool to do OCR
I would like to parse the text content (OCR) from these image file types and index them and make them available for my lucene search engine for search.
.ai .bmp .gif .jpeg .jpg .png .psd .ttf
Can ...
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What is the best open source tool to parse text content from files to make it available for search?
I would like to parse text content from any type of file to make it available for search. Say the file may be .txt, .docx - document type files or it may be an image, audio or video file.
I could ...
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Text file (log) viewer GUI with interactive coloring of multiple search patterns?
I am viewing text files (logs) with a massive ammount of data. I view them in a typical text editor like Scite or Geany, where the default view formatting is black letters on white background. What ...
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Program that sorts lines in a text file by number of occurences
I have a large text file with a lot of lines of terms. Some lines repeat themselves. I want a program that gives me the lines that appear most often in the entire document.
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Semantic Tagging and analysis or extraction of text (Windows/OS X)
I'm looking for a software to add semantic tags to a long, structured text, with the ability to search for, extract, maybe analyse these tags.
Specifically, the text is structured into chapters and ...
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Level, and center, scanned text documents
Looking for a program that can level and center the text in scanned pages. Scans are to .pdfs with occasional pictures but mostly text.
My example is the scanning of a paper that was not aligned when ...
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Efficient way to manually categorize / tag short texts
I have several hundred short snippets of text. I need to view them one at a time and mark each one with one or more tags from a pre-populated list. I'd like to have a piece of software that lets me do ...
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Text analysis software similar to Concordance
Concordance is "software for concordancing and text analysis", and was famously used to identify patterns in the writing of Agatha Christie. It is "not at present available for download or purchase ...
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online api for text to image conversion
I'm working on a program to create facebook messenger cards for "tips of the day". The tips are often longer than a facebook messenger card would allow, so I'd like to put the text in a .gif or .png ...
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Software that tells me which author's style my text most closely resembles
TL;DR:
I need a software that analyses a text I provide, compares it to its (hopefully large) database of authors, and finally tells me which author's style it most closely resembles. (It need not be ...
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Is there a program to copy full folder path directories?
Does anyone know of a program to do this?
Basically you have a folder on your computer
And subfolders inside of that
Possibly more subfolders in those
Some text file names + images in those
Is ...
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Text processor that is capable of Arabic
I want to create some documents with Arabic text in them. I already tried several programs, but not of them can satisfy my needs, which I think are quite basic.
I want:
Multi-column text layout
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Shortcuts to enter text composed of combinations of previously stored standard phrases
As a medical practitioner, one types in notes that consist of combinations of standard phrases to describe e.g. a physical exam. E.g. a note could contain one of several phrases describing the cornea, ...
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Software to match each sentence with each other from two epub files of different language versions of the same book
I have two .epub files which are the same book, just in two different languages. Comparing the books, each sentence has an exact counterpart.
Now I want to merge the two .epub files into one "multi-...
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Program to remove special characters non ascii from large texfiles
I have text files 100MB+ in size and they have a lot of special chars. I can't import them into my DBMS because PostgreSql doesn't recognize these chars.
How can I remove them? Which software does ...
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Suggest for each word I typed alternative words that are pronounced similarly
I am looking for a program running on Microsoft Windows that can suggest for each word I typed alternative words that are pronounced similarly. I'm mostly interested in texts written in English.
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Software for comparing two different text or html files
I need a software that can do the following:
Compare two different files
Highlight the differences
Can handle big text files
I have already checked out diffchecker.
My OS is Windows 7.
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Automated search for dictionary form of German words
I am looking for either a program (for linux) or an online resource, that accepts any German word in any inflected or declined form and outputs the lexicographic lemma, i.e. the "dictionary form".
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Text editor that takes more than 10 gb
I have Emeditor and it does what I want but when it has a file that has one or more gb, it slows down a little or doesn't do a lot. I wanted to know if there's a text-editor that has or does what ...
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Software for converting HOCR format to txt?
I have health documents which are currently in the hOCR format. I want to convert them to an xml format.
Is there a Mac/Linux - specific software which can do that?
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Find similar fragments in several text files
Given several text (in fact, Perl source) files I want to find long fragments which are repeated in more than one file.
There preferably should be an option to ignore amount of white space and/or ...
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Android app that filters Facebook posts containing a given list of words?
These types of extensions/add-ons are a dime a dozen for the web, so it's odd that there seems to be nothing out there for the mobile devices that people tend to prefer browsing Facebook on.
Required:...
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A tool/add-on to add text-shortcuts (canned text) to thunderbird
To my dismay Thunderbird does not support canned-text or shortcuts for text editing.
I type some URLs or sentences a couple of times a week and would like to find something that allows me to define ...
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Google Chrome extension that can allow copying text
I am looking for a Google Chrome extension that can allow copying text when it has been disabled by the website.
I am aware of the Google Chrome extension Allow Copy but it doesn't work in some cases,...
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Software that converts simple text format to json
I wanted a tool that, given a simple text format, can parse it and output JSON that can be used elsewhere. The input would be of a syntax that is easy and quick to write by hand, but that JSON can ...
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A Linux tool / utiltiy for identifying non-stopwords in English text
Is there a tool I can sent a text file or other file into that will identify unusual words (not in a stopword list) in Linux?
For example, words that are generally in the English language will be ...
