Simple Concordance Program
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Description
This FREE program lets you create word lists and search natural language text files for words, phrases, and patterns. SCP is a concordance and word listing program that is able to read texts written in many languages.There are built-in alphabets for English, French, German, Polish, Greek, Russian, etc. SCP contains an alphabet editor which you can use to create alphabets for any other language. Click HERE for the licence agreement. To see examples of SCP5 in action consult the Videos . To read the help file click scphelp.pdf
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Features
  • You can generate concordances, and search for words or phrases. You can produce both KWIC and Line-Based concordances. The words used can be highlighted in context or contracted. Left and right context sorting can be achieved. The concordances can be printed or saved to files.
  • You can save concordances in html to display on the web.
  • You can create word lists, which you can sort , print, or save. Sorting can be done in ascending or descending alphabetic or frequency order.
  • You can specify words and phrases using a prefix, a suffix, specific words, or using a pattern. You can select a group of words from which to produce your concordances and word lists.
  • You can exclude words using a stoplist.
  • You can display statistics of letter and word-frequency usage.
  • You can define the method of reading text, the types of symbols used, together with their collating order and style of embedded text references.Many text files already exist in forms that SCP can handle. Several sample files are included in the SCP download.
Other options are available and described in the built-in help file. SCP development benefits from feedback for those who use it. Please let me know of features you would like to see in future releases. The software runs under Windows, MacOS, and Ubuntu. For other operating systems please email me Alan Reed.
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Download SCP 5.0.9 (build 452) 64bit Intel Windows, Macos, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian)
Software last updated 5th April 2025 This is still under development, so use at your own risk.
What's new,
(1) Uses Unicode
(2) Does Collocations and Co-occurrencies
(3) Examples in English, Mandarin, Russian, Vietnamese, and Welsh
Operating System Architecture SCP Download Link sha256 checksum Notes
Windows 11/10 arm64 SCP 5.0.9 (exe installer) b2f06b10ab9091af31e57435a04094e29570b63371a11f1a9aa2abb408a105a1
Windows 11/10 arm64 SCP 5.0.9 (msi installer) a3f183838b19ad2b810c4235928e67e2726d822a6e90c35f6180091d3a3d3a78
Windows 11/10 arm64 SCP 5.0.9 (zip installer) 66a1383bbc813fc8fbb33d7c3fc6f641800a567bcf53ae59abd7c9fe23e4050c
Windows 11/10 x86_64 SCP 5.0.9 (exe installer) a101bf561436bc10adcc37ae1e5f4da45c593a93abe4d49de45d4568e6dcaeb1
Windows 11/10 x86_64 SCP 5.0.9 (msi installer) 73bdbc04a0231b7b261bc9cec4472b4517876f717d703a89dde5d4ffd909afbc
Windows 11/10 x86_64 SCP 5.0.9 (zip installer) 9e711626f267858f9f5df36d80081562ec3296afc1ceaacd865053ae09a87c69
MacOS arm64 SCP 5.0.9 (dmg installer) 5669145b12c73fa589ea9e5a16df3a4ca0e099c8d346d97a31109eebe4e3eb73
MacOS universal SCP 5.0.9 (dmg installer) 6bff74d8ba545c5cdacad7426e1b5cf3e0249df1f7412193730ee01a67abf8b6
MacOS x86_64 SCP 5.0.9 (dmg installer) fb0959deef4f332f2877ba5b7bf583a202aeb9a2bcb63a250e5005d8e8b0b75b
Linux (Ubuntu Debian) x86_64 SCP 5.0.9 (deb installer) 3b0c34221d41cfc9c9ab831c337f80a5adeedad380ecd85140901f21f3e6b8f2
Linux (Ubuntu Debian) arm64 SCP 5.0.9 (deb installer) cdbcb4fb56b726cdbf3ba641f190a1816b60a8bcb8ab46fe5b17f6384562f529

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Download SCP 4.0.10 (build 119) for 32bit Intel Windows
Software last updated 2nd February 2020 This is still under development, so use at your own risk.
On the Plus Side,
(1) 4.0.10 runs very much faster than 4.0.7 .
(2) html results can be produced .
(3) codepage symbols can now be displayed .
On the Minus Side, there are a few issues:
(1) a // at file end.
(2) No font can use KOI8.
SCP Download Link Size in bytes Notes
SCP 4.0.10(build 119) (msi installer) 5.77MB
  • avoid desktop icons by using the property DESKTOPICONS=no
  • The examples are located inside the install directory e.g. Examples
  • On Windows, use this to show the extensions (.txt, .scp etc) Windows File Extensions

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Download SCP 4.0.9 (build 110) for 32bit Intel Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10
Software last updated 3rd December 2019 This is still under development, so use at your own risk.
On the Plus Side,
(1) 4.0.9 runs very much faster than 4.0.7 .
(2) html results can be produced .
(3) codepage symbols can now be displayed .
On the Minus Side, there are a few issues:
(1) a // at file end.
(2) No font can use KOI8.
SCP Download Link Size in bytes Notes
SCP 4.0.9(build 110)(self installing) 5,681,664
SCP 4.0.9(build 110)(ditto zipped) 6,520,293

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Download SCP 4.0.9 (build 18) for Apple MacOS X on INTEL
Software last updated 13th March 2011.
SCP Download Link Size in bytes Notes
SCP 4.0.9(build 18) 2,852,870 10.4 or better

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Download SCP 4.0.9 (build 10) for Apple MacOS X on PowerPC
Software last updated 28th July 2007. Frozen - no more updates for PPC MacOS 10.3 .
SCP Download Link Size in bytes Notes
SCP 4.0.9(build 10) 2,175,405 10.3 or better

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Download SCP 4.0.7 for 32bit Intel Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Software last updated 14th April 2003 . No longer available.
SCP Download Link Size in bytes Notes
SCP 4.0.7(self installing) 11,388,928 no longer available
SCP 4.0.7(ditto zipped) 10,752,542 no longer available

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XML .scp and IE5
The SCP program uses XML syntax when writing the project files. Although they have and need the extension .scp to be picked up by the SCP program, they can, if given an .xml extension instead, be viewed with XML processing software. This capability is now available in Internet Explorer release 5. So if you copy an .scp file and give the copy an extension of .xml you can view it as a tree structure in Internet Explorer Release 5. To do that you use the File/Open/Browse All Files in Explorer 5 and look for .xml extensions. Similarly the scp.dat file, if say, copied to scp.xml can be viewed in IE5 in a similar way.

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FIX for MSVCR100.dll
When you install SCP you may find that an error occurs indicating that the application cannot find MSVCR100.dll and asks you to reinstall it.

There is a Microsoft fix for this issue. Download and execute the program vcredist_x86.exe from the following link.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84&displaylang=en
It is 4.83MB in size.
For the record, vcredist_x86.exe, is a Microsoft written program that installs some 're-distributable software' that is needed by programs compiled using Microsoft's 2010 C++ compiler.
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