This is a free text mining tool users can use to extract, highlight and display multiples sentences from text files using a list of keywords and prefixes.
It can be used to either analyze text for research purposes or practice writing.
- Sentence extraction using multiple keywords
- Handling of both singular and plural forms
- Ability to select keywords to ignore
- Up to 9 different color profiles for the highliting of the keywords
- Ability to customize themes, highlight colors and shortcuts
- Autocopy sentences to clipboard
- Rich text / Plain text copy
- New: Ability to create Rainmeter profiles to export the slideshows
Download and run the executable, no installation needed.
1 - Click "Add Folders", then select 1 or more folders containing the text files (.txt, .epubs or .pdf) you wish to process.
Note : You can drag your favorite folders to the left column of the explorer to pin them for a quick access.
2 - Enter the keywords you want to use to extract the sentences, you can also use keywords to ignore. The program will by default add or remove the letter [s] at the end of the given Keyword to create and search an additional form of the word.
[House] --> [House] & [Houses], [Cars] --> [Car] & [Cars], etc...
| Prefix | Result |
|---|---|
| Keyword | search for both singular and plural forms [Keyword and Keywords] |
| &Keyword | search the given form [Keyword] |
| !Keyword | ignore sentences with either singular or plural forms [ignore Keyword and Keywords] |
| !&Keyword | ignore sentences with the given form [ignore Keyword] |
| #Keyword | highlight the given form without searching it |
| ;Comment | ignore line |
3 - Check "Highlight Keywords" if you want your keywords to be highlighted in output files for later processing.
4 - Select "Single output" to store all the sentences into a single files, "All output" to produce additional files for each individual keywords.
5 - Click "OK", the extracted sentences will be stored inside the "../text_preset/" folder, the sentences separated by an empty line.
6 - Create or select a preset with the settings that you want to use for the session.
7 - Click "Start" to begin the session.
Note: You can select "Randomize" to shuffle the pictures and "Start session" to automatically start the session whenever the program is launched using your latest settings.
Note: You can select "Clipboard" to automatically copy the sentences to the clipboard.
The sentence preset can be exported and used as rainmeter slideshow. To do so, select the sentence preset you want to export and press the [Rainmeter] button. You can then place the created profile inside your "..\RAINMETER\Skins" folder and then launch it using rainmeter.
Note: The TEXT_SLIDESHOW.ini file can be edited to customise the slideshow. Most variables can be found in the [Variables] section.
Note: Deleted sentences get stored inside a new text file send to the "..\rainmeter_presets\Deleted Files" folder.
- Delete the session_settings.txt to reset settings and shortcuts.
- Delete the preset folder and restart the executable to reset everything back to default.
- Default encoding is UTF-8 so the presets files should be encoded as such.
All hotkeys can be modified through the session_settings.txt inside the preset folder, however, be careful as duplicate the keys get disabled.
| Button | Hotkey |
|---|---|
| Start session | S |
| Close Window | Escape |
| Button | Hotkey |
|---|---|
| Zoom + | Q, Numpad +, Mousewheel |
| Zoom - | D, Numpad -, Mousewheel |
| Toggle highlight | G |
| Toggle text field | T |
| Open color window | F1 |
| Toggle Always On Top | A |
| Previous sentence | Left Arrow Key, Shift + Backspace |
| Stop | Esc |
| Pause | Spacebar |
| Next sentence | Right Arrow Key, Return |
| Copy sentence [Plain text] | C |
| Copy sentence [Rich text] | Ctrl + C |
| Toggle autocopy to clipboard | Shift + C |
| Open preset folder | O |
| Delete sentence | Ctrl + D |
| Open setting window | Tab |
| Add 30s | Up Arrow Key |
| Add 1 Minute | Ctrl + Up Arrow Key |
| Reset timer | Ctrl + Shift + Up Arrow Key |
| Button | Hotkey |
|---|---|
| Previous Sentence | Left click |
| Next Sentence | Right click |
| Open Text File | Middle click |
| Copy Text File Path | Scroll up |
| Close slideshow | Scroll down |
| Move image to "..\rainmeter_presets\Deleted Files" | Mouse button 1 |
| Open Sentence folder | Mouse button 2 |