Welcome! The (Professional) AcroSeeker™ is a document analysis tool for identifying and validating acronyms.
AcroSeeker’s core features are free.
The Professional edition includes MS Word acronym table, Analyze Multi-Documents, Dictionaries’ Deep Search and Using Multi-Documents, Save Result to a selected folder.
In the following sections we will explain how to use the Professional and Free AcroSeeker in the easiest way possible. If you have any questions that you think should have been in this document, please contact us and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks again!
Contact Information & License
To open the Contact Information & License window, click on the person icon at the top left of the AcroSeeker’s window.
To active the 3-Day Trial Professional Edition license, click the 'Activate Professional 3-Day Trial' blue button. Next enter all required information and click the 'Submit' button.
To subscribe to the Professional Edition license, click here
AcroSeeker's opening panel
From the Welcome panel you can navigate to Acronym and Ignore Dictionaries, Previous Analysis Results and Analyze Document(s).
The Welcome panel pulls in a webpage from Atebion LLC's website and is updated frequently.
Click the 'Next' button to Start.
After you click the Next button from the Welcome panel, the Analyze panel will be displayed.
Supported File Types: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, (textual) PDF, Rich Text Format (RTF), and Plain Text.
The Analyze panel is where you run the Acronym Analysis on selected document(s). You can run the analysis without selecting any Dictionaries.
In the below screen image, the two Yellow Rectangles contain features only avaible in the Professional edition.
Create Table in Word Table checkbox, when checked an acronym table is generated in a Microsoft document.
Dictionaries Deep Search checkbox, when checked finds acronyms in document(s) based solely on your selected dictionaries.
In the below screen image, the Green Rectangle contains a drop-down list with 'Single Document' and if you have activated the Professional edition, it also contains 'Multi-Documents'. Multi-Documents provides a way to batch analyze multiple documents at once.
The following item numbers correspond to bubble numbers in the above image.
1. Acronyms Not Defined – This list contains Acronyms identified, but not defined.
2. The selected acronym is displayed in the Selected Acronym textbox for the adding it to a selected Dictionary. Then simply enter a definition and click the Save button.
3. From the Acronyms Not Defined list, check those acronyms you want to be included in the selected Ignore dictionary and click the associated Save button.
The above Post Analysis panel is not used with the Multi-Document analysis.
See Analysis Results
The following item numbers correspond to bubble numbers in the above image.
1. Select a folder to save the acronym analysis results files. This give you the ability to easy share your analysis results files via your company’s a server.
2. Each multi-documents batch run must have a unique name. The Batch Run Name is auto-generated for you. (e.g. Analysis-1, Analysis-2, Analysis-2…), but you can give your own Batch Run name.
3. Create Results Folder per Batch Run Name checkbox, when checked, AcroSeeker will create a sub-folder you the folder you select based on the Batch Run Name. For example, your selected Analysis Results path is “G:\Team A” and your Batch Run Name is “Analysis_2”, then the acronym analysis results files will be saved to “G:\Team A\ Analysis_2”. This save you time by giving you the ability to create a master folder for all of your analysis results.
4. Select Files button, when clicked will open a Files Dialog window. Select the files you want to run analysis on. You can quickly select multiple files by holding down the “ctrl” key down while clicking on files.
5. Remove File button: select a file in the list and click Remove File button to remove it from the Batch Run.
Select a document and then click either the (Analysis) Report button, or the (Acronym) Word Table button, or the Log file button. See Analysis Results
From the Welcome panel, click the Acronyms button to go to the Acronym Dictionaries panel.
Notice on the Acronym Dictionaries panel, there is Maintain Acronyms and Ignore Acronym lists. The Maintain Acronyms is the defaulted selection.
The Analysis Results Report is the same for both the Single Document Analysis and Multi-Documents Analysis (Batch Runs).
An example of an auto-generated acronym table in a Microsoft Word document.
From the Welcome panel, click the Results button to go the previous Analysis Results panel.
Notice there is a drop-down list containing Single Document and Multi-Documents. The Multi-Documents is accessible even when the Professional edition is not activated. This allows you access after your Professional edition has expired.
If you have Microsoft Outlook installed on your computer, then the Email button is displayed, so you can easily share the Analysis Results report and the Acronym Word Table document.