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Tesseract OCR

Tesseract is a free raw OCR engine originally developed by HP Labs and now maintained by Google. It works with the Leptonica Image Processing Library, and is capable of reading a variety of image formats. It can convert images to text in over 40 languages.

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Timeline JS

Timeline JS is a free timeline tool that can be poplulated from either a Google spreadsheet or a JSON file, and can draw media material from a variety of sources, such as Twitter, Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube and more. It has been designed to be both easy to use and easy to embed the results in another web page.

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TXM

TXM is a free, open source text corpus analysis environment. Its features include concordance, collocate search, frequencies based on the CQP full text search engine and statistical functions based on R packages. It can export results in CSV, XML or SVG format, and runs as a standalone desktop application in Windows, OS X and Linux environments, or as a web portal (download the leaflet for more).

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VARD 2

VARD 2 is a free, creative commons tool for preprocessing historical corpora. Built in Java, it enables researchers to easily match up historic variant spellings with modern conventions. Though optimized for Early Modern English, other languages can be accomodated with user-supplied variant word lists.

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Wmatrix

Wmatrix is a free tool for corpus analysis and comparison. It provides a web interface for USAS and CLAWS, in addition to enabling standard corpus linguistic functions such as frequency lists and concordances.

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Natural Language Processing

Trend Miner

Trend Miner is a tool designed to enable portable open-source real-time methods for cross-lingual mining and summarizing of large-scale stream media. It combines elements from natural language processing, knowledge-based reasoning, machine learning, economics and political science. It is designed to access and interpret data from sources such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter.

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Textal

Textal is a text analysis app for the iPhone and iPad offered by the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. It creates word clouds from texts, websites, tweets and documents, then allows users to explore the statistics and relationships between words in the text. As a tool, it is intended as an introduction to to text analysis while expanding the functionality traditionally implemented in word clouds.

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Transana

Transana is a free, open source program offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Education Research for transcribing and analyzing large collections of video and audio data aimed at academic researchers. It enables users to manually transcribe in a variety of levels of detail, identify and access analytically significant sections of their data, manage collections, organize video clips into categories, apply keywords to sections or clips, generate graphical or textual reports, data mine and share markup.

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NVivo

NVivo is a commercial software package for creating workspaces and corpuses. Its features include importing YouTube videos and comments, social media posts and discussions, web page and PDF capture, multiple language support and support for a wide variety of data formats such as spreadsheets, images, database tables and so on. Users can query their data in a variety of ways, annotate, cross-link and visualize connections, ideas and findings with charts, maps and models

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English Metrics

English Metrics is a free tutorial on English metrics, first written in Hypercard and maintained in a StackRunner version for both OS X and Windows environments. It traces the process of scanning iambic pentameter, and includes reference and exercise material for a range of metrical patterns.

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