Yoshikoder

First off, there’s an update to the YK Converter available from here.  It’s a ‘related file’ for the Yoshikoder, for some reason. These updates are primarily because I’ve just finished working on a project that required scraping a lot of truly horrid web pages, and the current machinery wasn’t quite up to dealing with them.  In fact, they bust everything except TagSoup.

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Another preview (RC2) is available here. Most of the debugging happened on the Mac side, but it ought to go slightly better everywhere.   Read the rest of this entry »

In a remarkably productive Christmas break I finally got working on the much neglected, at this point almost mythical ‘next version’ of the Yoshikoder.  It’s not quite there yet, but I thought it might be nice to share a sneaky new year preview with you.  

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Folk have requested the possibility to run their dictionaries over all project documents at once to generate a ‘unified dictionary report’ mirroring the unified word frequency report.  This function is now attached to a menu item in the latest preview release.  It drops the resulting report straight into a CSV file, for easy import into whatever you like to do your data analysis in.

There’s a tiny weeny little update to the converter, available from the usual spot. I’ve made the help a bit better, and it should feel a bit slightly more native on Windows.

Folk have been asking about being able to run dictionary reports over all their documents rather than one at a time. Since the code for the next version of the Yoshikoder is in pieces around my bedroom, with several bits having rolled under the carpet or been borrowed by the cat, I’ve made a little program to do dictionary reports in a batch. This application currently lives here, and is wrapped up for Windows. Give it a project file from the Yoshikoder and it will run a dictionary report on every document in the project, and drop the results into a file. At least, that’s the idea.

Yes, I bust the concordance reports in the latest Preview. They are now unbusted. Version 0.6.3-Preview.1 is a bug-fix release, available from the usual place.

A preview release of version 0.6.3 of the Yoshikoder is available from the home page. I described the changes in a previous post a while back.

Remember that this is only a preview: online help is not up to date, and I’m sure there will be some other things to iron out. Nevertheless statistical document comparisons are ready. And you saw them here first…

There's a new release of the YKConverter that fixes a rather nasty bug for Windows users trying to convert webpages. It seems the old C:\ shuffle tripped me up. The moral of this bug is: do not construct local URLs by hand, use file.toURI().toURL() instead.

This release also attempts to remove <!— thing —> sections that the html parser tends to leave in. These are usually useful but deeply uninteresting chunks of javascript. The removal code might not always work, but it might save you some post-editing.

The new release is available from the converter's homepage.

A new version of the Yoshikoder’s document converter is available from http://www.yoshikoder.org/ykconverter/.

The converter turns PDF, Word documents, and web pages, into UTF-8 encoded text for you to edit and save.

Visible changes from the previous version include:

• Online help
• Drag and drop documents onto the application window to convert them
• Preferences about where converted documents are saved