skrutable

for making Sanskrit less inscrutable

skrutable is a toolkit and online workbench providing useful functions for working with Sanskrit text, specifically: transliteration, scansion, meter identification, and, through the amazing work of Oliver Hellwig and Sebastian Nehrdich (2018, 2024), sandhi and compound splitting.

Other related tools have their advantages, too. Check them out!

Here's what I like about skrutable:

• one simple front-end input box for multiple functions
• modular backend design for use in coding projects (object-oriented Python package, HTTP API)
• clear and customizable scansion output in plain-text
• optional pāda re-splitting for meter identification
• multiple suggestions for recitation melodies (learn more about the reciters)
• one-click access to word splitting
• copy-and-paste or upload your input, up to 64mb

Whether you're a beginning student or an advanced scholar, skrutable is here to help you understand and enjoy Sanskrit language and literature.

For more info on the special case of using this software to detect metrical errors, click here.

Feedback

Find a bug? Comments, suggestions? I'd love to hear from you. My name is Tyler (LinkedIn, Academia) and my Gmail is tyler.g.neill.

Technical

• back end: Python library on GitHub and on PyPi (currently running v2.0.2)
• front end: Flask API and GUI on GitHub, on Docker Hub (currently running v1.6.7), and deployed on Digital Ocean
• back end supplement: splitter server on GitHub and deployed on PythonAnywhere
• Check out the list of past and future updates

Sister site

Vātāyana