Tools and resources

AMesure
AMesure lets you analyse an administrative text directly and assess how difficult it is to read on a five-level scale.

Beta2uni
An online tool for converting Beta Code to Unicode. Two versions are available: a 'simple' version for converting Beta Code text to Unicode, and an 'advanced' version for converting Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) files.

CEFRLex
The CEFRLex project offers several lexical resources graded according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), for foreign language learning, teaching and research.

Diacritics Remover
The Diacritics Remover application lets you quickly strip diacritics from letters.

DicAuPro
DicAuPro is a database of more than 1,700 proverbs in modern French, providing an inventory of the variations these proverbs have undergone since the Middle Ages. The database is free to access (registration required).

DMesure
An application for assessing the readability of a text in French as a foreign language.

FABRA
FABRA is an API that brings together a large number of variables for predicting readability in French.

Recto-Verso
The 'Recto-Verso' software (from RECTifications orthographiques / VERSion originale, French for 'spelling reforms / original version') automatically applies the 1990 French spelling reforms to a text.

ReSyf
ReSyf is a lexical resource for French in which synonyms are graded by difficulty level.

TreeTagger
This is a web interface that makes it easier to use TreeTagger, a tagger developed at the Institute for Computational Linguistics of the University of Stuttgart. As well as giving each word's part of speech, the tool provides its lemma.