Going through a Doc word by word?

[Abela James]

Hi everyone,

I am a complete noob when writing Gscript, so my apologies if this is an obvious question.  I would like to write an extension to go through a doc and check to see if each word is in the 3,000 most common words in English and then put the results in a sidebar.   I've roughly figured out how sidebars work, but what I can't find in the documentation is how to go through a document word by word?  All help very much appreciated.  I think this could be an incredibly useful extension for teachers to encourage people to simplify their documents for EAL learners.

Best wishes

James 

[Alan Wells]

Every time I guess at how much work something will be, I am wrong.  It usually takes 5 to 10 times longer than I wanted it to.  This may be more work than you realize, even though the concept is simple.

I did a quick search to see if I could find some existing code to use as a basis to get started.  See the link:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56633528/script-that-would-find-and-mark-the-same-words-in-the-paragraph

I'm not sure where you are going to get the 3000 word list?  Do you already have that?

[Abela James]

Hi Alan,

Yes, I have that. I agree every time I think about doing Gscripts it seems more work than I think it should be, but I think this is something that would benefit a lot of teachers and a good learning exercise for me.  I will definitely treat it as an experiment, so that I don't get too discouraged.  This snippet seems really helpful! Thank you.

Best wishes

James

P.S. Plan B is to write it in Python, which I already know how to do, but I think this would make it much more accessible to other teachers.

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[Alan Wells]

Glad to know that you already have programming experience.  I mistakenly assumed otherwise.  One reason that I use Google is because of the GSuite Marketplace.  They have the delivery system.  So, a Docs Add-on under the category of Teaching Tool / Aid (I don't think that's the exact category) should get lots of users.

On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 8:59:43 PM UTC-4, Abela James wrote:

Hi Alan,

Yes, I have that. I agree every time I think about doing Gscripts it seems more work than I think it should be, but I think this is something that would benefit a lot of teachers and a good learning exercise for me.  I will definitely treat it as an experiment, so that I don't get too discouraged.  This snippet seems really helpful! Thank you.

Best wishes

James

P.S. Plan B is to write it in Python, which I already know how to do, but I think this would make it much more accessible to other teachers.

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 08:46, Alan Wells <aj.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

Every time I guess at how much work something will be, I am wrong.  It usually takes 5 to 10 times longer than I wanted it to.  This may be more work than you realize, even though the concept is simple.

I did a quick search to see if I could find some existing code to use as a basis to get started.  See the link:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56633528/script-that-would-find-and-mark-the-same-words-in-the-paragraph

I'm not sure where you are going to get the 3000 word list?  Do you already have that?

On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 8:14:07 PM UTC-4, Abela James wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am a complete noob when writing Gscript, so my apologies if this is an obvious question.  I would like to write an extension to go through a doc and check to see if each word is in the 3,000 most common words in English and then put the results in a sidebar.   I've roughly figured out how sidebars work, but what I can't find in the documentation is how to go through a document word by word?  All help very much appreciated.  I think this could be an incredibly useful extension for teachers to encourage people to simplify their documents for EAL learners.

Best wishes

James 

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[Phil Bainbridge]

I have this script which was created to bulk go through Google Docs and access specific text (an answer to a question) that may help you: https://www.pbainbridge.co.uk/2020/05/bulk-extract-text-from-google-docs-for.html

Kind regards

Phil