text-processing

Handling written data

Text-processing is the manipulation of written data by computer—analyzing, transforming, searching, or reformatting text.

The term covers everything from simple find-and-replace operations to complex natural language analysis: The script does basic text-processing to clean up the data.

Text-processing tools handle tasks like parsing logs, extracting patterns, or converting file formats.

computational

NLP

Machine language comprehension

automation · corpus · pipeline · batch · script · regex · extraction · transformation · encoding · normalization

document

formatting

Structuring visual presentation

  • conversionAct of changing states
  • markupAdded percentage for profit
  • PDFFixed-layout document format

OCR · extraction · indexing · search · retrieval · metadata · pagination · layout · typesetting · stylesheet

editorial

proofreading

Checking text for mistakes

copyediting · markup · annotation · correction · cleanup · standardization · consistency · formatting · review · approval

linguistic

syntax

Rules for arranging words

annotation · tagging · part-of-speech · dependency · constituency · discourse · sentiment · classification · summarization · translation

Opposites
data type processed

text-processingimage processing

Manipulating digital pictures computationally

image editing · audio processing · signal processing · video editing · photo editing

automation vs. manual handling

text-processinghandwriting

Manual letter formation

calligraphy · pen and paper · longhand

Family

text, processing, texts, textual, textually, texture, textile, textiles, process

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