The document proposes using text distortion and algorithmic clustering based on string compression to analyze the effects of progressively destroying text structure on the information contained in texts. Several experiments are carried out on text and artificially generated datasets. The results show that clustering results worsen as structure is destroyed in strongly structural datasets, and that using a compressor that enables context size choice helps determine a dataset's nature. These results are consistent with those from a method based on multidimensional projections.