Readability Calculator

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Readability calculator is a simple program to estimate how skilled a reader must be to understand a piece of text. There is a large number of methods for that. The following ones are implemented in the current version of this program:

1. [Flesh Reading Ease] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readability_test#Flesch_Reading_Ease)
2. [Flesh Kincaid Grade Level] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_Grade_Level#Flesch.E2.80.93Kincaid_Grade_Level)
3. [Coleman Liau Index] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman-Liau_Index)
4. [Gunning Fog Index] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning-Fog_Index)
5. [SMOG Index] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMOG)
6. [ARI Index] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Readability_Index)
7. [LIX Index] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LI)
8. [Dale-Chall Score] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%E2%80%93Chall_readability_formula)

Dependencies

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• [Pyphen] (https://github.com/Kozea/Pyphen)

> pip install pyphen

• [NLTK] (https://github.com/nltk/nltk)

> pip install nltk
> python
> import ntlk
> nltk.download("punkt")

Using

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1. Download it ([Pypi link] (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ReadabilityCalculator/)):

> pip install ReadabilityCalculator

2. Using the library:

from readcalc import readcalc
calc = readcalc.ReadCalc("This is a simple text.")
calc.get_smog_index()
> 3.1291