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Explain complex text in plain English

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    Cleartext305

    A text editor that allows only the 1,000 most common words

    2016

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    Make text more understandable and easier to read

    2023

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    Auto-summarize any online article

    2019

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    Discover insights and relationships in text

    2017

  5. 5NL

    Link: https://www.nlpdemystified.org/ Hi HN: After a year of work, I've published my free NLP course. The course helps anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the basics to today's mainstream models and frameworks. I strive to balance theory and practice, so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook putting the ideas into practice (in most modules). The notebooks cover how to accomplish everyday NLP tasks including extracting key information, document search, text similarity, text classification, finding topics in…

    2022

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    Paste as plain text by default

    2022

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    Clarity325

    Lightning fast YouTube notes

    2021

  8. 8LJ

    Hi HN, Just wanted to share a tool i've been working on to help with my own study routine. It’s a browser extension called Lingoku. The idea is simple: we spend hours browsing the web in English every day. This tool replaces some of the english words with Japanese vocabulary based on your japanese level (Similar to Toucan, but with a better user experience). It’s basically an attempt to make the "i+1" method actually passive, you understand the sentence because it's mostly english, but you pick up Japanese words naturally from the context. It uses an LLM in the backend to make sure the…

    Dec 2025 · lingoku.ai

  9. 9NL

    Hi HN: I published part one of my free NLP course. The course is intended to help anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the very basics all the way to today's mainstream models and frameworks. I strive to balance theory and practice and so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook (in most modules) putting the theory into practice. In part one, we cover text preprocessing, how to turn text into numbers, and multiple ways to classify and search text using "classical" approaches. And along the way, we'll pick up useful bits on how to use…

    2022 · nlpdemystified.org

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    Paste any academic text. Understand it in simple English.

    Feb 2026 · simplify-academic.vercel.app

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    Simplify136

    Read less, understand more

    2023

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    Welma99

    Understand and retain complex text with the help of AI

    2023

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    To semanticate(simplify reading) or not,that is the question

    2017

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    See how a modern neural network completes your text.

    2019

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    Highlight any text to instantly translate and explain it.

    2025

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    Pretext142

    A powerful, clean Markdown & plain text editor for iOS 📝

    2018

  17. 17KR

    Actually, it is yet another tool to learn a language through immersion (classic set of features, watch on youtube/netflix, read a website or book). It has a popup dictionary so you can click on a word and it will show the definition. Nothing new in that regard, except that it has been made with only Korean in mind and does not plan to extends to other languages. I was learning and still am learning Korean (now using my own tool to learn!). I initially made the tool for myself because none of the tools out there could correctly figure out what a word was in the text. And that's where the…

    2023 · kimchi-reader.app

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    Read & listen to native Japanese and Chinese, tap any word

    Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com

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    AI Reading Assistant

    2024

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    Multilingual transcription & translation for Mac

    2025

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    A text Expander for Mac - type 3 keys, expand 300 words

    Dec 2025 · loadfast.store

  22. 22IB

    Hey HN! I’m Alex, and one of my favorite ways to learn languages is by reading novels. Currently I’m reading 三体 (3 body problem), but one problem I've always had is it takes ages to look up words, and add them to Anki flashcards so I can remember them. 三体 is especially brutal with so much sci-fi vocab. That’s why I built Readly. I snap a pic of the page I’m reading, it loads the text in-app and lets me lookup words, add to Anki-style flashcards, or ask AI questions about the text, all in a single tap. It's a huge time saver. My specific learning strategy, if anyone wants to replicate it: 1.…

    2025 · readly.ink

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    We sort. You acquire.

    2024

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    Difficult books, made clearer as you read

    16d ago · clarifybooks.app

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