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The WorkbenchTools that upload nothing
A workshop by the ODERSA associationNothing leaves, nothing is kept, nothing reaches us.

The workshop · The text and data corner

The text and data corner

Count words, measure readability

“How many characters?” has more than one right answer, and that is the first thing this tool shows you: one emoji is two code units, one code point, and a single visible sign. All three counts are shown separately, with what each of them is for.

Pasted text

Nothing is sent: the text is counted here, on your device. That is what lets you paste a text that is not published yet.
Ctrl + Enter also runs the tool.

Your text never leaves your device

This tool works entirely inside your browser. What you type or paste here is sent nowhere, and nothing is kept once the tab is closed.

Checkable in ten seconds, without taking our word for it:

  1. Open your browser's inspector: the F12 key (or Ctrl+Shift+I, or Cmd+Option+I on a Mac).
  2. Go to the “Network” tab, then clear the list.
  3. Type or paste some text on this page and run the tool. The list stays empty: no request goes out.
  4. To go further: cut your connection and do it again. The tool still works.

This absence of requests is also checked BY MACHINE before every release: a lock drives a real browser, processes a real file, and refuses to publish if a single byte goes out.

The proof page, step by step and in pictures

Going further

InstructionsHow it works

The tool works on plain text. Formatting pasted from a word processor is not counted: only the words are. To strip a text of what copy and paste dragged in with it, the “Clean up pasted formatting” tool in the same corner is built for that.

VerifyThe proof, step by step

The network inspector check, explained one gesture at a time, with screenshots.

The cornerThe text and data corner

The other tools in this corner of the workshop.

UnderstandHow this is built

The formats actually handled, browser by browser, and what we ruled out.