Our Story

The idea for ReadWorks emerged from a deeply personal experience. In our family, we faced the challenge of urgently needing to filter important information from a vast amount of documents. Reading wasn't an option due to time constraints, and the relevant details were buried deep within the texts. As experienced users of professional text processing and command-line tools like `grep`, we could solve the problem – but only with significant technical effort. We realized that these tools are simply inaccessible to many people. Moreover, we recognized the limitations of such tools: they lack intuitive visualization or user guidance that facilitates understanding and clarity when dealing with large document collections. With ReadWorks, we wanted to pursue a completely new approach. Instead of simply combining existing tools in a user interface, we developed our own solution that combines powerful search functions with a novel visual representation. ReadWorks highlights search results through clear color coding directly in the original documents, offers advanced filtering options, and enables users to clearly display results from multiple documents simultaneously. This allows users to not only find relevant information quickly but also maintain an overview during complex searches – in a way that isn't possible with classical tools. Today, ReadWorks enables everyone, even without technical expertise, to quickly and effectively find relevant information in large document collections. It combines precision, clarity, and flexibility while saving valuable time.