lektor: Hungarian for a manuscript’s first reader
What a sceptical reader sees before reading a word
Paste a text. Lektor marks the habits of form that readers now link to chatbots, the ones that make them stop reading closely, and says how to fix each. Your text never leaves this page.
Paste a text and the findings appear here.
Readers judge the form first
Many readers decide on the first page how closely to read the rest. A bold label at the start of every paragraph, or a heading with Every Word Capitalised, says “chatbot” before the first sentence is read. From there the reader skims, even where the thinking is your own.
How it works
Lektor checks your text against fixed rules. They collect the signs that readers, teachers among them, name as giving machine text away. Each finding gives its line number, and a click selects that line in your text. It understands Markdown and LaTeX, and it works on English and Hungarian.
What it is not
It does not detect AI, and it cannot disguise it: the rules look only at form, and fixing the form does not change who did the thinking. A text can pass every rule here and still say nothing. Lektor only shows where the form of a text gets in the way of what you wrote. If a machine helped, say so, in the way your course or journal asks.
Your text stays in your browser
The check runs in your browser, and it keeps working if you go offline after the page has loaded. What you paste is never sent or stored, and no AI reads it. There are no cookies and no accounts. The page counts how often it is opened and used, so that I can see whether anyone needs it. It records only the time and, for a visit, the site you came from. It keeps no IP address.