TextDescriptives
hlasse.github.io
Spec sheet
- Purpose
- TextDescriptives is a Python library for calculating statistics and other metrics from text using spaCy v.3 pipeline components and extensions.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hlasse.github.io
- Integrations
- The documentation shows integration with spaCy pipelines and a scikit-learn pipeline featurizer.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hlasse.github.io
- Support
- The documentation directs bug reports and feature requests to GitHub Issues and usage questions to GitHub Discussions.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hlasse.github.io
- License
- The project’s GitHub page identifies its license as Apache-2.0.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Demo
- The documentation links to an online demo for trying the package.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hlasse.github.io
- Install
- The documentation says to install the package with `pip install textdescriptives`.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hlasse.github.io
- Metrics
- Its components cover descriptive statistics, readability, dependency distance, part-of-speech proportions, coherence, text quality, and information theory.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hlasse.github.io
- Notable limitation
- The quality component is designed for usability and spaCy integration rather than speed, and the docs suggest another implementation for large-corpus filtering.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hlasse.github.io
- Output
- The extractors can return metrics in a Pandas DataFrame or a list of dictionaries, and can process raw text or spaCy documents.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hlasse.github.io
- Quality filtering
- Quality metrics include stop-word and out-of-vocabulary ratios, text repetition, bullet points, ellipses, and configurable thresholds for checks.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hlasse.github.io
- Readability
- Readability measures include Flesch, SMOG, Gunning-Fog, Automated Readability Index, Coleman-Liau, LIX, and RIX.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hlasse.github.io
- Text statistics
- Descriptive statistics include token and character counts, unique-token proportions, sentence lengths, syllable counts, and token lengths.Read 4 Oct 2026 · hlasse.github.io
Where Specifiction places it
- Text Analytics Software#31 of 376.3
