Introduction

KH Coder is a free software for quantitative content analysis or text mining. It is also utilized for computational linguistics. You can analyze Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian and Spanish text with KH Coder.

• Screenshot Gallery of KH Coder 3 & 2
• Research Using KH Coder New!

Get KH Coder

On Windows: Download the *.exe file and run it to unzip. Then run "kh_coder.exe." On Mac OS X: Instructions here.

• Download KH Coder 3
• License: The GNU General Public License v2 or later

If you are new to KH Coder, please take a look at this tutorial first. We have also a video, PDF slides, and detailed version: part 1 and part 2.

Support

• GitHub Discussions: Post Questions and Error Reports Here
• Old Discussion Forum Archive: Read Only
  • Co-occurrence networks: topic 1, topic 2
  • Jaccard coefficient: topic 1, topic 2
• Small Tips
• Reference Manual (PDF)
• Citation:
  • Higuchi, Koichi 2016 "A Two-Step Approach to Quantitative Content Analysis: KH Coder Tutorial using Anne of Green Gables (Part I)" Ritsumeikan social sciences review 52(3): 77-91. [PDF File]
  • Higuchi, Koichi 2017 "A Two-Step Approach to Quantitative Content Analysis: KH Coder Tutorial using Anne of Green Gables (Part II)" Ritsumeikan social sciences review 53(1): 137-147. [PDF File]