What is Dr.Explain?
Dr.Explain is a documentation generator software that helps create technical documentation from source code automatically. It supports analyzing source code from languages like Java, C#, PHP, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Visual Basic and more to auto-generate documentation.
Some key features of Dr.Explain include:
- Extracts information from source code comments and docstrings to build thorough documentation.
- Supports multiple output formats like HTML, PDF, DOC, Markdown and more.
- Auto-generates a table of contents and index for navigation.
- Produces well-formatted reference docs with annotations and cross-referencing.
- Provides templates to customize look and feel of generated documentation.
- Enables collaboration by hosting docs on internal web server.
- Integrates with popular IDEs like Visual Studio, Eclipse and NetBeans.
Overall, Dr.Explain significantly reduces the time and effort required to create and maintain technical documentation by automating the process of extracting structure, code examples and inline comments or annotations from source code.