Questions tagged [hunspell]

An open source spell checker, used by OpenOffice, Firefox, Google Chrome and Mac OS X.

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding and character encoding, originally designed for the Hungarian language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell

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Correctly saved words with german Umlaute in personal dictionary of hunspell not recognised as correct spelling by emacs ispell or flyspell

I have a perfectly working setup for hunspell with emacs (flyspell) using ("german” "[[:alpha:]]" "[^[:alpha:]]" "[']" t ("-d" "de_DE_frami" ) nil utf-8) as dictionary definition for ispell-dictionary-alist. German Umlaute are no problem as long…
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Nhunspell C# Adding Word to Dictionary

I have managed to incorporate spell checking into my C# project using NHunspell. What I would like to do is actually add a word to the dictionary file. There is a method to do this inside of NHunspell which I believe is as follows: // Add the word…
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NHunspell with Microsoft Word?

Does anyone know if there is a way to integrate NHunspell with Microsoft Word? I've been trying to find a way to use opensource spelling dictionaries with Microsoft Word to enable support for languages that currently do not have an option for spell…
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Combine two BDIC files from Chrome (hunspell) into one

I have two BDIC (binary dictionary?) files from Google Chrome spell checker (based on hunspell). I want to combine this two files into one single BDIC for all words. Here is a reader/writer (chromium/src/third_party/hunspell/google/bdict_reader.h)…
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How and what does Firefox (Hunspell) do to clean text before spellchecking words?

I am trying to clean text in the exact way that Firefox does before spell checking individual words for a Firefox extension I'm building (my addon uses nspell, a JavaScript implementation of Hunspell, since Firefox doesn't expose the Hunspell…
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libreoffice/openoffice Auto Spell Check has never worked

I have used OpenOffice/LibreOffice for at least a decade. I do not write documents very often, and the biggest pet peeve I have is that I have to google the recipe to turn spell check on EVERY TIME I create a new document, because I just don't do…
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Autocorrecting all misspelled text data in R

So I have been searching for a long time on methods to correct typos in text in R, without manually adding/replacing words. I have data in text format that is the patients' complaints in an emergency department. After performing a simple Random…
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How does hunspell works

I looked for a paper which explains how does hunspell works, but without any success. I would like to know how does hunspell works and especially how does it make suggestions ? Does it uses Levenshtein distance to look for the best suggestion…
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hunspell suggestions score on python

I am new to Hunspell, i'm working on python 3.4 with hunspell package. I'm wondering if there is a way we can see score for each suggestion in Hunspell and choose a cut off if we want to (cut off : Possibilities that don’t score at least that…
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How to use unmunch command of hunspell?

The project link : https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/ I have followed the instructions and compiled the DLL files on windows 8.1 Here the dll files folder Then i start a CMD window as administrator Move to that folder and run this…
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Python hunspell package installation via pip fails

The installation of the hunspell python package (via pip) fails with the following error: hunspell.c:21:22: fatal error: hunspell.h: No such file or directory #include ^ compilation terminated. error: command…
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emacs ispell breaks on latex quotation marks

My emacs "ispell" command, which runs hunspell, breaks when it hits quoted sections in my emacs latex buffer (I am using AucTEX). With my previous emacs/Linux distro it didn't have this problem. Example: as you like to say, vbfs ``You won't know…
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Hunspell/Aspell data conversion to human-readable inflection list

Is there an easy way to generate a human-readable inflection list from Hunspell/Aspell dictionary data files? For example, I'd like to generate the following outputs (for different languages): ... book, books book, books, booked, booking ... go,…
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What is good for spell checker? Google spell checker or Hunspell

For my asp.net website, I need spell check functionality. I found some interesting solutions to do it. 1. Google spell checker 2. Hunspell. Both are free. For my understanding I realized some cons and pros for both approach. For Google spell…
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Interactive Spell Checking Programs Available for emacs

I recently switched to emacs24 and upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04. I can't seem to get hunspell working correctly again. I find hunspell to be better than aspell generally. Hunspell only wants to use the Australian dictionary and not English US dictionary…
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