Hermetic Word Frequency Counter Advanced for Windows

User Reviews

• The Swiss Army Knife of text analysis

  E_Billy5/30/2013

  Pros

  Excellent tool to count words and phrases in a file or a folder. Works perfectly and is updated regularly by a skilled developer. Many, many options to tweak your results the way you want.

  Cons

  None. Everything works as expected, no surprises. I have been using this software for several years, and it's never crashed on me. I've had a few requests and have emailed the developer directly, and he's implemented most of them! Some reviews have mentioned the interface; I don't see a single thing wrong with it--it doesn't have any Geocities animated GIFs, but I like that. See the screenshot in the description above to see what one of the pages of the interface looks like. I do wish, though, that it could load huge lists of words to ignore (50,000 words or more) a bit faster, but they need to be loaded only once (when you open the software), and after that, you're done.

  Summary

  I develop curricula for a learning center in San Francisco. To develop our materials, I need to analyze vast numbers of texts including textbooks and book-length works of literature. I use Word Frequency Counter Advanced to generate lists of words that appear in each book or chapter of a book. For example, we have used WFCA To generate vocabulary lists for such books as "Nineteen Eighty-Four", "The Jungle", "The Great Gatsby", and many more. The software also allows us to display information in various ways, including words only, words with number of times it appears, words in alphabetical order, words ranked by frequency, etc.

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• Useful tool for translators

  gloab4/18/2013

  Pros

  Makes translating long document more efficient

  Cons

  Somewhat cluttered interface

  Summary

  I have been using WFCA as technical translator for 7 years now. Initially by counting the most frequent original words and "brute force" replacing them with translated words. After I started using a Translation Memory program, WFCA was less needed. But recently the developer added a really useful Count All Phrases function (all updates are free with the perpetual license at less than 60 USD), It quickly identifies phrases of 3 to 6 words occurring at least 3 times (default parameters, easily changed). These phrases plus their translation can be added to the "Term Base" of the Translation Memory program; the translation will then be suggested when they appear in the original document. Installing the software (under Windows XP, Windows 7 32 and 64 bit) is straightforward.

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• Efficient and logical

  mstruck444/11/2013

  Pros

  Analysis of English and Portuguese is transparent and reliable.

  Cons

  Nothing major

  Summary

  I have been using this program almost daily for more than four years and never encountered a problem.

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• Poorly laid out, no multi-lingual support.

  Luckydayy10/1/2011

  Pros

  It counts words. You can do this online for free.

  Cons

  Difficult layout and ugly interface. Doesn't work with foreign characters (breaks up the words, giving an inaccurate count).

  Summary

  For a paid program, I'd go elsewhere.

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• I could not get it to run correctly

  rwpryor5/7/2011

  Pros

  I don't know of any.

  Cons

  Loading was horrible. Both times it locked up my computer (laptop running Win XP, w/lots of mem and space). Finally it loaded. But when I tried to run the program, my computer again locked up.

  Summary

  I just tried to open it, but my 5 (calendar) days of trial expired. So did my patience with this program. Let me know when you have a reliable program and I might try it again. I really needed to use it, but not when it wasted 3 hours of my time. A free trial should especially work right so the user will really want to buy it.

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