Tools for text comparison

How to use (with texts provided in the .txt format, UTF-8 encoding):

• put the corpus into a folder named TXT in the same folder as this script
• put the texts to analyze into a folder named todo in the same folder as this script
• run the script by executing in the console the following command: python intertextFinder.py
• for each text file in the todo folder, a new file with the same name and the extra extension .html is added into the same folder, open it in a web browser to see the results

Demo of the result at https://philippegambette.github.io/txtCompare/intertextFinder

Automatically call MEDITE at http://obvil.lip6.fr/medite/:

• to start pairwise comparisons of all UTF-8 encoded text files in a files folder in the same folder and simply execute the script with python: python pairwiseMedite.py
• to start comparing two long text files which were previously split in smaller parts (file1-1.txt compared with file2-1.txt, file1-2.txt with file2-2.txt, etc., if file1 and file2 are given as input file names): python pairwiseMedite.py L_education_sentimentale_1870.txt L_education_sentimentale_1880.txt

Requires Python 3 and selenium with Firefox browser (https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/installation.html).

Demo of the result at https://philippegambette.github.io/txtCompare/pairwiseMedite

In order to split long files into smaller parts, insert the character ? each time you want to split the file and then use the script decoupeOuvrage.py with the filename as input: python decoupeOuvrage L_education_sentimentale_1870.txt

Visualize the differences of order of texts in two collections of texts (for example, two editions of a collection of poems, or short stories) with a Sankey Diagram, built in Javascript/jQuery from a spreadsheet file.

Demo of the result at https://philippegambette.github.io/txtCompare/sankeyCompare

Visualisation of the evolution of the frequencies, along a text, of words taken from two input word lists.

Tool available online, with a demo on the Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, at https://philippegambette.github.io/txtCompare/visuLexique