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Voyant Tools
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Voyant Tools is a web-based text analysis, reading and visualization environment. Developed by a small team of digital humanities scholars led by [Stéfan Sinclair ](http://stefansinclair.name/)and [Geoffrey Rockwell](http://geoffreyrockwell.com/), Voyant Tools is designed for a very wide range of applications and users, from students to researchers and journalists to market analysts. It strives to balance user-friendliness with a range of analytic and interpretive functions.
Voyant Tools is a web-based text analysis, reading and visualization environment. Developed by a small team of digital humanities scholars led by [Stéfan Sinclair ](http://stefansinclair.name/) and [Geoffrey Rockwell](http://geoffreyrockwell.com/), Voyant Tools is designed for a very wide range of applications and users, from students to researchers and journalists to market analysts. It strives to balance user-friendliness with a range of analytic and interpretive functions.
# Features
Some of the important features of Voyant Tools include:

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Voyant Tools is an open-source project and the code is available through [GitHub](http://github.com/sgsinclair/Voyant). The code is under a [GPL3 license](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html) and the content of the web application is under a [Creative Commons By Attribution license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

# Voyant Tools 2.0
The currently available version of [Voyant Tools](http://voyant-tools.org/) is 1.0 but version 2.0 is in active development and is expected to replace 1.0 in the first half of 2015. Voyant Tools 2.0 is a complete rewrite that is focused on better performance and scalability, as well as improved functionality (such as more powerful search).
The currently available version of [Voyant Tools](http://voyant-tools.org/) is 2.0. It isa complete rewrite that is focused on better performance and scalability, as well as improved functionality (such as more powerful search). Voyant 3.0 is expected by 2020.

## Releases
* Dec 3, 2014 - 2.0 M1 (Preview Release): Initial Release

For a somewhat more detailed overview of releases please see [VoyantServer releases](https://github.com/sgsinclair/VoyantServer/releases)

## Known Issues
* several skins and tools are not yet implemented
* tool help, options, and exporting not yet available
* Voyant slows down as the index grows

## Road Map
* restore full functionality and backwards compatibility with Voyant Tools 1.0 (winter 2015)
* resume development of Voyant Notebooks (summer 2015)
* new architecture to better support distributed indices (multiple users)
* update code to latest version of Lucene
* integrate some language-specific functionality such as part-of-speech tagging
* add functionality for word groups
* resume development of Spyral (Voyant Notebooks)

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