Check a document against the dictionary before you publish it. Drop in a file — or paste the text — and every term we hold comes back with its rating and the sentence it appeared in.
Drop a document here or choose a file
PDF, Word, OpenDocument, RTF, HTML, subtitles, CSV or plain text
or paste the text
Nothing is uploaded. The file is read inside your browser and the text never reaches our server — or anyone else’s.
What it reads
PDF, Word (.docx), OpenDocument (.odt), PowerPoint (.pptx), rich text, HTML, subtitle files (.srt and .vtt), CSV and plain text. You can drop several at once, and anything unrecognised is treated as plain text.
Two limits worth knowing. A PDF that is a photograph of a page — a scan, or an export from a phone camera — contains no text to find, and the scanner will say so rather than report a clean result it has not earned. And the older .doc format cannot be read; save it as .docx first.
Where the file goes
Nowhere. The reading happens inside your browser, on your own machine — the file is never uploaded, and the text never reaches our server. What the page fetches is the dictionary: the list of terms and their ratings comes down to you, rather than your document going up to us.
That matters more here than on most tools. The documents worth checking are usually the ones you would rather not hand to a stranger.
How to read the result
Each term found is listed with its rating out of 10 and the number of times it appeared, worst first, with the surrounding words so you can judge the use rather than the word. A term rated 8 in a quotation may be fine; the same term as an aside may not be. The scanner counts — it does not decide.
Terms nobody has rated yet appear separately. Those are in the dictionary but carry no score, and if one turns up in your document you are in a good position to be the first to rate it.
Ratings come from visitors to this site, not from us. See the block lists for the same data as a list you can paste into a moderation tool.