From the webpage:
An Overview App is a program that uses Overview.
You can make one. You know you want to.
Using Overview’s App API you can drive Overview’s document handling engine from your own code, create new visualizations that replace Overview’s default Topic Tree, or write interactive document handling or data extraction apps.
If you don’t remember the Overview Project:
Overview is just what you need to search, analyze and cull huge volumes of text or documents. It was built for investigative journalists who go through thousands of pages of material, but it’s also used by reasearchers facing huge archives and social media analysts with millions of posts. With advanced search and interactive topic modeling, you can:
- find what you didn’t even know to look for
- quickly tag or code documents
- let the computer organize your documents by topic, automatically
Leveraging the capabilities in Overview is a better use of resources than re-inventing basic file and search capabilities.