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A Eclipse Readability Studio Creation Review has been created for this proposal.

Eclipse Readability Studio

Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 09:55 by Blake Madden
Basics
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Parent Project
Eclipse Technology
Proposal State
Community Review
Background

Since 2006, Readability Studio has provided readability formula and grammar analysis for editors, writers, researchers, and educators. Available for the desktop on Windows and macOS, Readability Studio offers over 50 readability tests for English, Spanish, and German documents.

Scope

Eclipse Readability Studio provides a powerful tool for editors, writers, researchers, and educators, offering advanced readability and grammar analysis. Available for Windows and macOS, it features over 50 readability tests for English, Spanish, and German documents, helping users refine their writing with precision.

Description

Eclipse Readability Studio is a desktop applications which provides:

  • over 50 readability formulas
  • grammar checking features
  • ability to analyze individual documents
  • ability to analyze batches of documents at once
  • support for English, Spanish, and German documents
  • support for MS Word, OpenDocument, RTF, HTML, PostScript, and text files
Licenses
Eclipse Public License 2.0
Legal Issues

None

Why Here?

Readability Studio is currently used in Academia and the publishing and medical industries, which could be beneficial for the Eclipse Foundation. Also, Eclipse's existing connections with the automotive industry could find the use of Readability Studio beneficial for their user manuals.

The Eclipse Foundation can provide a ecosystem and infrastructure for collaboration from both current and future users who wish to contribute in various ways (e.g., programming, research, tech writing).

Future Work

Planned new features include:

  • support for Linux
  • support for additional Spanish tests
  • possible support for PDF documents
  • support for Arabic readability formulas
Project Scheduling

The project has been in production since 2006 and the code is ready to move into Eclipse upon project approval.

People
Project Leads
Blake Madden
Gabrielle Madden
Committers
Blake Madden
Gabrielle Madden
Source Code
Initial Contribution

The author, Blake Madden, is the copyright holder of Readability Studio.

3rd party submodules include:

  • wxWidgets (wxWindows license, which is a LGPL derivative)
  • Lua (MIT license)
  • tinyxml2 (zlib license)
  • UTF8-CPP (Boost Software License)
  • wxSimpleJSON (wxWindows license)
  • easyexif (BSD license)
  • CRC++ (BSD license)
  • doxygen-awesome-css (MIT license)

The following are submodules owned by author of this project:

  • Wisteria-Dataviz (BSD license)
  • wxStartPage (BSD license)
  • OleanderStemmingLibrary (BSD license)
  • tinyexpr++ (zlib license)
Source Repository Type
GitHub