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Re: Text analysis of astrology books

xlrv@sympatico.ca <x...@sympatico.ca>

On Aug 26, 3:47 am, Ray Murphy <ray...@chariot.net.au> wrote:

> Hi All,

> Now that so many old books have been converted to text or PDF files,
> I've made a small program that might eventually be of some use for
> establishing who might have published certain astrological words or
> terms first.

> It's a simple text analysis program that reads any text file and
> counts each word and the number of times it was used. The results are
> printed in both word-count (and %) order plus alphabetical order.

> It will be easy now to see the following:
> * When an author first used certain terms
> * Most frequently used words or terms
> * What words or terms were not used at all
> * Vocabulary per 1000 words written
> * Themes in the text

> Ray

Ray, you have deserved yet another medal!

You really mean this works on pdf files as well as
text files? With different formats?