Stanford Part-of-Speech Tagger is a free Java implementation for the recognition of parts of speech, and a part of the Stanford Natural Language Processing toolset. It reads text and assigns parts of speech to each word such as noun, verb or adjective. This tool can be used with English, French, Arabic and German text.

T-PEN is a free toolset from the Center for Digital Theology at Saint Louis University for working with images of manuscripts and attaching transcription data. It has features for collaborative transcription in XML, multiple data viewing, data manipulation and data export. T-PEN includes support for multiple languages with French, Middle English and Old English dictionaries. User accounts are available by request.

TextSTAT is a free text analysis tool offered by Niederländische Philologie, FU Berlin. It is a simple program designed to accept plain text, HTML, Word and OpenOffice files to produce word frequency lists and concordances, and versions are available in English, German, Dutch, Portugese, Spanish, French, Italian, Galician, Finnish, Polish and Czech. TextSTAT also includes a web spider and news reader for adding web pages and news to a corpus.

TXM is a free, open source text corpus analysis environment. Its features include concordance, collocate search, frequencies based on the CQP full text search engine and statistical functions based on R packages. It can export results in CSV, XML or SVG format, and runs as a standalone desktop application in Windows, OS X and Linux environments, or as a web portal (download the leaflet for more).

JConcorder is Java software for building and managing word catalogues, originally released for the Macintosh as Concorder / Le Concordeur. Amongst its features are functions for listing and cataloguing words, generating concordances, exporting concordances and graphing frequencies. The original version is also available for download, but requires a legacy Macintosh operating system to run.

FRANTEXT is a historically and culturally important database of French literary, philosophical and technical texts with an emphasis on diversity and representation, spanning the Middle Ages to the present, and offered on a subscription basis. This resource is aimed at linguists and literary scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and is notable for its inclusion of a powerful search engine called Stella. Stella is a sophisticated NLP search suite, and includes regular expression search, lemmatization, vocabulary list and entity categorization functions.

Flemm v3.1 is a free, open source tool for lemmatizing and generating inflections for a French text.

CNRTL is a free XUI and Javascript extension for Firefox designed to enable users to access the French lexical CNRTL portal directly within their web browser. With its toolbar, users can also double-click on a word within a webpage to view lexical information for it.

Pompamo is a free, web based tool for French texts designed to detect candidates for neologisms within a text based on lexical exclusion. Users can apply the built-in lexicon or upload up to six of their own.

DériF (Dérivation en Français) is a free, web based morphological analyzer for French. It lemmatizes a text and labels each lemma, out of context, with a grammatical category (noun, verb, adjective, etc.).