Questions tagged [spell-checker]
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Spell and Grammar checking engine with RESTful API
If I think of automated writing support service, the following examples come to my mind:
Microsoft Word with some proprietary engine
Open Source engine from Open Office, Hunspell
Commerical online ...
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Grammar checker extension for Firefox
I'm using Mozilla Firefox, and I'm writing a lot of articles on different sites. I need an extension that will check the text I write (in English) and suggest me how to fix it if there are any grammar ...
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C++ Part-Of-Speech tagger
I am, with some friends, developing a serious game about correcting spelling mistakes.
The first version was developed in Java, but we want to start again from scratch, and we decided to use C++/Qt ...
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Simple terminology checker
I am looking for a simple tool that would check text for terminology based on a replacement list.
Example of a replacement definition:
allowed: application
disallowed: app; consider: application
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Lightweight text editor for spell check & grammar check offline in OS X
I keep using LibreOffice for just the spell & grammar check, earlier it was MS Word.
Is there an offline version for English language that is multi-platform?
Basically an app like Windows ...
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Free, portable, Windows email client with auto-correct spelling
I am almost desperate enough to use MS Outlook, but would strongly prefer something portable.
Must have
Gratis
Windows (10)
Support multiple email addresses
[update] auto-correct spell ...
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Check spelling as you type for macOS
I spend many days trying to find an app for macOS that would check my spelling as I type and warn me with a sound that a word was misspelled. tinySpell+ is what I use on my PC and it is great. I with ...
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Spell checking a md file in github while accessing the online md editor
Is there an easy way to spell check markdown files in GitHub while editing them directly online using the Chrome browser? I tried a few Chrome plugins but they don't seem to recognize the markdown ...
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Command-line spell check for Windows
I'm looking for a command-line spell checker for windows. Currently, GNU ASpell absolutely is not working out for me.
Neither the installed nor portable version. They would not even create console ...
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LibreOffice dictionary and spell checking in other languages? (without Java)
Using LibreOffice (latest version) on OS X, everything in English. However I frequently work with documents in other languages (e.g. German, Dutch, French) and I would like to have spell checking for ...
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Chrome extension to disable spellcheck in a text field?
I occasionally need to write Latin in a text box in Chrome. And this always happens:
I don't really want to break out a dedicated text editor just for this, but the red lines under most words ...
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Autocorrect anywhere on Windows
I am looking for a program that runs in any program on Windows that autocorrects common misspellings (like iOS's keyboard).
I would like:
it to be free
it to automatically auto-correct (in case that ...
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Command line spellchecker for Finnish
Would you know where I could get a command line spellchecker (Windows binary if possible) that I can use in noninteractive mode for Finnish (in order to filter a list of strings that can be words or ...
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Spell- and grammar-checker for PDF documents
I am looking for a program that can spell-check a PDF document (without having to convert the PDF into another format like .docx, which I can do using Adobe Acrobate Pro). If possible, free, ...
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Spell-checker for LaTeX documents
I am looking for a program that can perform spell-checking for a LaTeX document that comprises several .tex files and one .bib.
If possible:
free
Windows 7
grammar checking too
GUI
