Readability Studio's Unique Features

Numerous insightful tests

Readability Studio offers many popular readability tests for English text, including all of the following:

• New Dale-Chall
• Spache (Revised)
• Laesbarhedsindex (LIX)
• Rate Index (RIX)
• Powers, Sumner, Kearl
• Automated Readability Index
• Simplified Automated Readability Index
• SMOG
• Flesch Reading Ease
• Flesch-Kincaid
• Gunning Fog
• New Fog Count
• Coleman-Liau
• FORCAST
• Linsear Write
  
• Fry Graph
• Raygor Estimate Graph
• McAlpine EFLAW©

However, the biggest strength of Readability Studio is that rather than just showing the results of these readability formulas, it offers in-depth explanations of its results, as well as recommendations for how to lower these scores if a document is too difficult for your target audience. Our readability software suite also provides many useful tools to help review the difficult aspects of your document, including complete lists of various difficult words and views of the document with difficult words and sentences highlighted.

Another important feature is that Readability Studio analyzes the entire content of your document (rather than small sub-samples), giving you the most accurate results possible.

Helpful assistance for test selection

Readability Studio presents an intuitive interface for selecting readability tests. Experts can manually select the tests that they want to perform on their documents, while those less familiar with readability tests can be guided through a helpful wizard that can recommend which tests to include based on the document's type (e.g., text book or brochure) or which industry the document relates to (e.g., magazine publishing or health care).

Numerous file formats supported

Readability Studio supports importing text from many file formats, including:

• ANSI, Unicode, and UTF-8 text (*.txt)
• Microsoft® Word documents (*.doc)
• HTML (*.htm)
• Rich text (*.rtf)
• Postscript (*.ps)

You do not even need to have the native application for these file formats installed; Readability Studio is capable of importing these files without the assistance of any additional programs.*

Advanced exporting capabilities

Readability Studio provides printing and numerous exporting capabilities for test results, highlighted document views, word lists, statistics, and graphs so that you can easily share and publish your results:

• Test results, statistics, and difficult word lists can all be exported as HTML or text.
• Highlighted document views can be exported as RTF, HTML, or text.
• Graphs can be exported as TIFF, JPG, BMP, PNG, or PCX.

Flexibility

Finally, Readability Studio is highly configurable readability software package. Many features such as how documents are parsed and analyzed, as well as how the highlighted documents are displayed, are all customizable. For example, you can specify how numeric words are syllabized. Most other programs either sound out each digit of a word such as "10/26/1974" or treat the entire word as one syllable and you cannot change this; in contrast, Readability Studio enables you to specify which of these behaviors to use and you can change it at anytime.

* Native applications for files such as Microsoft® Word documents are required to edit them.