Extracting Words from Text

Paste Japanese text or choose a file, and eevy lists the words and kanji in it. You review the list, then add it to a collection. Only entries already in eevy's dictionary are added.

Giving it your text

1. Under Choose a file, choose a .txt or .md file, a Word document (.docx or .docm), a web page (.html or .htm), a DRM-free .epub book, subtitles (.srt, .vtt, .ass or .ssa), Mokuro manga text or a .zip. Or open Or input text and paste.
2. Set your choices under Options, then extract.

• Use a file or pasted text, not both. Choosing a file clears the text box.
• If a file's text looks garbled, pick another encoding under Read as.
• Extractions in progress lists texts you have not added yet. Resume one or cancel it.

File types

Open a file type to see how it is read.

Word boundaries and word form

Longest dictionary match (default):

Group the longest words and expressions the dictionary recognizes.

One word per morpheme:

Split at each unit the analysis finds, so compounds come apart.

Dictionary form:

Use dictionary forms where the evidence supports them, such as 食べる for 食べました.

As written:

Keep the form the text uses.

Base entries only:

Use dictionary forms, and skip items without a matching base entry.

In 気に入りました, Longest dictionary match keeps 気に入る whole. One word per morpheme splits it apart. When eevy can't tell which word was meant, you decide on Review.

Furigana

Read furigana (on by default): Uses readings written in the text, like 漢字[かんじ] or ｜漢字《かんじ》, to pick the right word. Ruby in books, Word documents and web pages works too. Readings never become words in the list.

What to include

When two toggles disagree, the one that is off wins.

Mastery and list size

Maximum mastery

Leaves out words you know above this level. Choices: Any level, Proficient, Familiar, Learning, Novice, New only. Default: Any level. See Mastery Dashboard.

Minimum occurrences

Keeps items that appear at least this many times. Default: 1.

Maximum items

Keeps this many words and this many kanji, most frequent first. Default: No limit.

A list over 10,000 items is refused.

After extracting

• Extraction summary shows what was kept and what was left out.
• No items kept with these options means your options left nothing. Change one and extract again.
• Edited an option? Re-extract makes a fresh list, or Revert changes restores the options you extracted with.
• Cancel deletes the list and keeps your text.

Review

Review sorts your rows into groups. Only Needs your choice starts open.

Needs your choice:

More than one entry fits, or the row needs fixing. Choose one, or leave it out.

Your choices:

Rows you saved, or a bulk button answered.

Matched:

The spelling found exactly one entry.

Not found in eevy:

Nothing in eevy's dictionary matched. Use Search, press Add to glossary, or let the row be skipped.

Add to glossary:

Words you'll make yourself. Don't add sends one back where it came from.

Skipped:

Rows left out, each with its reason. Restore brings one back.

• Each row shows how often the item appears, such as 3 included occurrences. Where it appears shows it in your text.
• Back to Text takes you back to your text and options.

Choosing an entry

• Pick a candidate, or one of its meanings. Whole word links the whole entry.
• A linked meaning is the one study uses for that word.
• Press Save to keep your choice. Clear drops it. Nothing is kept until you save.
• A saved row moves to Your choices.
• Search finds any entry in eevy when the right one isn't listed. Save it like any choice.
• Exclude leaves a row out.

Add to glossary

• On a Not found in eevy or Needs your choice row, press Add to glossary to make the word yourself. The row moves to the Add to glossary group.
• Don't add sends a row back to the group it came from.
• The word starts as your file wrote it, with a mark like 〜 kept, and you can edit it.
• Add all to glossary adds every Not found row at once. Clear all sends every added row back.
• After the import, those words wait in Needs review. You review each one before it is saved.

Answering many rows at once

These buttons sit above Needs your choice. They only answer rows nobody has answered yet.

Choose top match for all:

Takes each row's top match. A word is taken whole, never one meaning.

Treat all as Words, Treat all as Characters:

Takes each row's one entry of that kind. A row with none is left alone.

Skip unresolved rows:

Leaves out every row still waiting. The button shows how many.

Adding to a collection

1. Under Destination, choose Existing collection or New collection.
2. Under Order in collection, choose the order items are added in.
3. If some rows are skipped or not found, tick the box that says so. Rows going to your glossary don't count.
4. Press the import button at the foot of the page.

• A full collection shows Full and cannot be chosen. Others show how much room they have.
• If a collection has no room for the import, nothing is added and your choices stay. Start with a smaller import, or choose another collection.

Order found in the text (default):

Keeps the order the items first appear in your text.

Occurrence count:

Items your text uses most come first. Ties go in gojūon order.

Frequency:

Common items first. Items without frequency data go last, in gojūon order.

Gojūon:

Sorted by reading.

Import complete

The page shows ten totals: Items attached, Already in collection, Meanings linked, Repeated items, Source records, Matched, Matched by meaning, Your choices, Not found in eevy, Skipped. Skipped counts every row the collection didn't get: left out, not found, invalid or sent to your glossary.

Below them, each collection the import filled shows what it got. Open collection opens it. Edit collection opens it in the Collection Editor. Back to import returns to the import start page.

When words went to your glossary, Review words opens Needs review.

Limits and privacy

• Text up to 8.0 MiB. Files up to: text 16.0 MiB, book 20.0 MiB, Word 100.0 MiB, web page 32.0 MiB, Mokuro 32.0 MiB, Mokuro zip 1 GiB.
• A zip up to 1 GiB. Each file in it keeps its own limit.
• Your text is private. Adding the list to a collection deletes the saved text; the words stay.
• Extracting needs an active Studio subscription.