brackendev/Readability-Swift

Metrics to determine readability and comprehension difficulty for contemporary English text

Readability-Swift

Determine readability and comprehension difficulty for contemporary English text.

• iOS reference platform, 10.3 minimum version.
• Example app and tests included.

Metrics Included

• Automated Readability Index
• Coleman–Liau Index
• Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
• Flesch Reading Ease
• Gunning Fog Index
• SMOG Grade

Installation

CocoaPods is the easiest way to use this project. Add the following to your project Podfile:

use_modular_headers!

pod 'Readability-Swift', :git => 'https://github.com/brackendev/Readability-Swift.git'

It is a good idea to specifiy the commit. For example:

pod 'Readability-Swift', :git => 'https://github.com/brackendev/Readability-Swift.git', commit => '31c183bcda89b205072bcee3d3bcd5f5ee1bd707'

Example Usage

1. Import it:

   import Readability_Swift

2. Use it:

   Readability.automatedReadabilityIndexForString("Test")
   Readability.colemanLiauIndexForString("Test")
   Readability.fleschKincaidGradeLevelForString("Test")
   Readability.fleschReadingEaseForString("Test")
   Readability.gunningFogScoreForString("Test")
   Readability.smogGradeForString("Test")

Note: See the example view controller.

Acknowledgements

This project makes use of the following third-party libraries:

• objC-syllable-counter
• RegexKitLite

Ports

• Objective-C
• Pharo
• Swift
• VisualWorks

Author

Bracken Spencer

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License

Readability-Swift is released under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.