Text Analysis Tools

Text Analysis Tools

Estimate how long content takes to read, count words and characters, and summarize text structure. Handles plain text, Markdown, and HTML (markup is stripped before counting).

Capabilities

• Reading time: Estimated minutes from configurable reading speed (default 238 words per minute, a typical adult silent reading rate).
• Word and character counts: Totals with and without spaces; lines, sentences, and paragraphs after markup removal.
• Deeper text stats: Unique words (case-insensitive), longest token, average word length, average words per sentence, and the ten most frequent words (optionally excluding common English stop words for the frequency list).
• CJK content: The reading time estimate detects Chinese, Japanese, and Korean script and adjusts the effective word count and effective reading speed for that path.

Gotchas

• Markup: HTML tags and common Markdown syntax are stripped; anchor text and image alt text are kept. Frequencies use whitespace-separated tokens (punctuation may stay attached to a word).
• Stop-word filtering: Only affects the frequency list, not overall word counts.
• WPM default: 238 WPM reflects median adult silent reading speed (Brysbaert, 2019). Dense or technical prose is often slower (~200 WPM).