Word frequency counter

[Bill Amatneek]

For ID cc 14.0.3 is there a Word Frequency Counter app/script, one that counts the frequency usage of each word in a (102,000 word) .indd file?

MTIA.

Best regards to all,
Bill Amatneek
Heart of a Man: Men’s Stories for Women

[David Blatner]

Not sure if this will still work, but here's one idea:

http://www.kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/all/word_gathering_and_sorting_in_dictionary.html

Or there are also good ways to export all the text in a story, and then you could use a variety of tools (e.g. Excel) to get a word count.

If you want a word cloud, you could use this:

https://creativepro.com/creating-a-word-cloud-in-indesign/

best wishes,

David Blatner

Publisher, InDesign Magazine, CreativePro.com

[John Kramer]

You want a *concordance*, Bill, no?

Quick search yields a few options. Among them:

http://textworld.com/scp/index.html

No personal experience with this.

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[Bill Amatneek]

Thank you, David and John.

I will look at all these ideas.

[Bill Amatneek]

David & John, many thanks for your responses.

It appears that the apps that David suggests list each word that appears in a doc, 

but do not list the frequency usage of each word that appears in that doc.

And John, I don’t think I need a concordance, which is:

"an alphabetical list of the words (especially the important ones) present in a text, usually with citations of the passages in which they are found.”

I’d like a list that shows:

WORD FREQUENCY

a 1,234

about 120

alphabet  1

an 1,010

etc.

Better yet, it should be ordered by frequency, not alphabetized.

I see a number of online tools for this when searching on 

word frequency counter

but I’m strangely reluctant to put my entire book, 101,000 words, into an online app. 

I’d rather have something on my desktop to do this.

Again my thanks to David and John for your help.

Best regards to all,

Bill Amatneek

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David Blatner <da...@63p.com>: Nov 16 01:15PM -0800

Not sure if this will still work, but here's one idea: http://www.kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/all/word_gathering_and_sorting_in_dictionary.html   Or there are also good ways to export all the text in a story, and then you could use a variety of tools (e.g. Excel) to get a word count.   If you want a word cloud, you could use this: https://creativepro.com/creating-a-word-cloud-in-indesign/   best wishes, David Blatner Publisher, InDesign Magazine, CreativePro.com On Monday, November 16, 2020 at 9:29:56 AM UTC-8 Bill Amatneek wrote:

John Kramer <johnkramer...@gmail.com>: Nov 16 04:40PM -0500

You want a *concordance*, Bill, no? Quick search yields a few options. Among them: http://textworld.com/scp/index.html No personal experience with this.

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[Rick Gordon]

A script could do the following:

* Create an array (JS) / list (AS) of every word in every story (so if
a word is used 20 times, it exists 20 times in that list).

* Render that list into a block of text, one word followed by a return.

* Sort the paragraphs.

* Do a search for how many repeated lines for each entry, processing
the result for each word into a list containing the word and the
number of repeats (formatted as desired), or perhaps the number of
repeats first, for easier sorting, though if processed as
*word-tab-repeatNumber*, it could be brought into Excel and sorted
there easily.

Rick Gordon

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>> Not sure if this will still work, but here's one idea:
>> http://www.kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/all/word_gathering_and_sorting_in_dictionary.html
>>
>> Or there are also good ways to export all the text in a story, and
>> then you
>> could use a variety of tools (e.g. Excel) to get a word count.
>>
>> If you want a word cloud, you could use this:
>> https://creativepro.com/creating-a-word-cloud-in-indesign/
>>
>> best wishes,
>> David Blatner

>> Publisher, InDesign Magazine, CreativePro.com <http://CreativePro.com>

>> On Monday, November 16, 2020 at 9:29:56 AM UTC-8 Bill Amatneek wrote:
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>> John Kramer <johnkramer...@gmail.com

>> <mailto:johnkramer...@gmail.com>>: Nov 16 04:40PM -0500

>>
>> You want a *concordance*, Bill, no?
>> Quick search yields a few options. Among them:
>> http://textworld.com/scp/index.html
>> No personal experience with this.
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[Rick Gordon]

To scale that to process an book, you'd just process each document in
turn, adding words to the list, and then do the sorting and repeated
line analysis.

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On November 29, 2020 at 2:04:34 AM [-0800], Rick Gordon wrote in an
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> A script could do the following:
>
> * Create an array (JS) / list (AS) of every word in every story (so if
> a word is used 20 times, it exists 20 times in that list).
>
> * Render that list into a block of text, one word followed by a return.
>
> * Sort the paragraphs.
>
> * Do a search for how many repeated lines for each entry, processing
> the result for each word into a list containing the word and the
> number of repeats (formatted as desired), or perhaps the number of
> repeats first, for easier sorting, though if processed as
> *word-tab-repeatNumber*, it could be brought into Excel and sorted
> there easily.