Archived — retired product
The Windows-only VisualText IDE (versions 1, 2 and 3) was retired when NLP++ and the NLP Engine went open source in 2018. The installers are no longer distributed, and these versions are unsupported.
Use this instead: the NLP++ Language Extension for VS Code — Windows, macOS and Linux, actively developed. See what’s new in version 3, or get the source at github.com/VisualText.
This page is kept for historical reference only. See the VisualText archive.
The VisualText® IDE was an integrated development environment for building text analyzers in NLP++. It gave you a place to keep the texts being processed, a step-by-step sequence of analysis passes, a knowledge base, and debugging tools that let you see exactly what an analyzer was doing at each step. It was intuitive enough that many non-programmers became skilled analyzer writers with it.
Two Windows versions shipped: VisualText 2 and, later, VisualText 3 with an improved editor and updated interface. Both are retired.
Everything the IDE did now lives in the NLP++ Language Extension for VS Code, which runs on Windows, macOS and Linux: the pass sequence, the knowledge base browser, the parse-tree viewer and the debugger are all there, alongside the open-source NLP Engine.
