Re: Tool to Analyze Text for Possible Snippets

[Jack DeLand <jackdeland -at- adamcharlesconsulting -dot- com>]

Meh. Switch to Flare and Analyzer.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Paul Hanson <twer_lists_all -at- hotmail -dot- com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking at 8 different Word documents. The end game for these
> documents is to import them into my HAT (RoboHelp 2015) and maintain them
> in HTML. No problem - I know how to do all that.
>
> What I want to pick your brains about is how to determine the frequence of
> the duplicated text. I know there is duplicate text across the documents
> because I took the 8 Word documents, inserted each into a single Word
> document, stripped out the graphics, and sorted the paragraphs.
>
> I ended up with 280 sentences.
>
> Sure, I can visually scan the list and find a sentence like this - "Create
> and confirm a 4-digit Citrix PIN." - and see that it exists twice. I know I
> could paste the list of 280 sentences into Excel and remove the rows that
> are duplicated - that's NOT what I'm looking for.
>
> Instead, I'm looking for something close to this site:
> https://www.online-utility.org/text/analyzer.jsp, BUT I want to know how
> many times a sentence exists. For example, I pasted in the 280 sentences
> and the site came back with this information:
> |
> Some top phrases containing 8 words (without punctuation marks)
>  Occurrences
> configure secure hub configure secure hub configure secure
>       4
> |
> However, that text is the following text:
> |
> Configure Secure Hub
> Configure Secure Hub
> Configure Secure Hub
> Configure Secure Hub
> Configure Secure Hub
> Configure Secure Hub
> |
> So what I want to do is paste in the 280 sentences and get a report that
> "Configure Secure Hub" exists in the list of 280 "6" times.
>
> Have you found an easy way to do this?
>
> The next step, after I figure out how to get the list of duplicated text
> is to generate .hts files (snippet files that RoboHelp recognizes) so that
> I can analyze the text outside of RoboHelp, create the .hts files, import
> the snippets into RoboHelp and then run find and replace actions to replace
> "Configure Secure Hub" with the reference to the snippet that will store
> the "Configure Secure Hub" text. I know how to create the snippet file,
> using a DOS command to "Copy [template.hts file] [name of snippet file]"
> but have yet to figure out how to get the actual text I want to store in
> the snippet INTO the snippet without manually pasting the text - Configure
> Secure Hub - into the snippet... but that's after I figure out to analyze
> the text automatically to know that "Configure Secure Hub" is repeated 6
> times in the 280 sentences.
>
> Paul Hanson
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