Questions tagged [hunspell]
An open source spell checker, used by OpenOffice, Firefox, Google Chrome and Mac OS X.
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Hunspell - Can't open affix or dictionary files for dictionary named en_US
I'd like to use hunspell to spell check my repo. However when I try to run it I get the following error:
Can't open affix or dictionary files for dictionary named "en_US".
How can I fix this? I'm on ...
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How to make custom dictionary for Hunspell [closed]
I have a question about building a custom dictionary for hunspell.
I'm using a general English dictionary and affix file right now. How can I add user-specified words to that dictionary for each of my ...
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spell check in Rstudio
How to configure and use spell check in Rstudio? In the tools>Global option>spelling I have set the main dictionary language as English(US) and custom dictionary as en_us from "/usr/lib/rstudio/...
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Spell checking a file using command line, non-interactively
I have a large text file, containing many miss/bad-spelled English words. I'm looking for a way to edit this file using a command-line spell checker in Linux. I found some ways to do this, But ...
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Generate all word forms using Lucene & Hunspell
In an application I work on, we use Lucene Analyzer, especially it's Hunspell part. The problem I face is: I need to generate all word forms of a word, using a set of affix rules.
E.g. having the word ...
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Emacs Windows spellcheck - aspell or hunspell
I use emacs 23.1.50 version on Windows XP operation system. I could not setup hunspell or aspell as part of emacs with the example provided by the emacs wiki. Anyone has working confiugration for ...
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Working setup for hunspell in Emacs
Does anyone have a working setup for hunspell and Emacs? Simply setting ispell-program-name to hunspell doesn't work, the output (when using flyspell, for example) looks like below:
-> UTF-8 ...
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Hunspell on Android
Does anyone successfully implemented Hunspell spell-checker on Android platform? Is it even possible? Did you try it? What about the results?
Thank you in advance.
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Simple spell check method/gem in ruby?
I am looking for a relatively quick way to check whether words are misspelled, either using a gem or API.
I've tried using several gems -- raspell, ffi-aspell, hunspell-ffi, spell_cheker, and ...
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How to do spell check on html and xml?
I have to do spell check for large number of big html and xml documents (more than 30.000). I also need custom dictionary and sophisticated algorithms of checking. I try to use BASH + linux utility (...
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Examples/Tutorials of Hunspell
I've tried looking through the documentation found on SourceForge with Hunspell, but I'm still lost. Are there any decent examples of hunspell that a C++ beginner would be able to follow? Failing ...
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Max edit distance and suggestion based on word frequency
I need a spell checker with the following specification:
Very scalable.
To be able to set a maximum edit distance for the suggested words.
To get suggestion based on provided words frequencies (...
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How do I install hunspell on windows10?
I'm new to python and need help with getting hunspell installed on my windows 10. The tool is PyCharm.
First I tried to install CyHunspell: pip install CyHunspell and got the following error msg:
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How to obtain all possible words from given hunspell dictionary?
I would like to parse open office supporting hunspell formatted aff and dic files.
English aff and dic files can be downloaded from here for example : http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/...
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Java, project panama and how to deal with Hunspell 'suggest' result
I'm experimenting with Hunspell and how to interact with it using Java Project Panama (Build 19-panama+1-13 (2022/1/18)). I was able to get some initial testing done, as in creating a handle to ...
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Dictionary File Structure of Open Spell-Checkers
Is there any explanation docs or tutorials of the file structure of FreeDict, Aspell, Hunspell/OpenOffice Dictionaries especially concerning the switches at the end of each row in each .dic file? My ...
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Installing hunspell package
I'm looking forward to install the hunspell package using pip, but it throws the following error:
Collecting hunspell
Using cached hunspell-0.4.1.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: ...
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Draw "red squiggly line" in CHtmlEditCtrl
I am working on building spellchecking functionality into my app which currently uses MFC's CHtmlEditCtrl control.
Is there a way of drawing one of those "red squiggly lines" that you see under ...
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Amazon Elastic Search- Install Hunspell Stemmer
I want to use some dictionary based stemming via the hunspell token filter. I am using Amazon Elastic Search, but not getting how to configure these plugins to my domain. If any other dcitionary ...
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Is it possible to make Hunspell print the line numbers of the misspelled words?
I am trying to use Hunspell to correct an essay I have written. Unfortunately, it is useless to me, as long as it doesn’t print the line numbers of the misspelled words.
So right now I am using the -a ...
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How do I resolve a Hunspell Intel 32bit DLL not found exception?
I have used the following code for spelling checking.
While I am running it, I get an DLLFileNotFound exception:
"Hunspell Intel 32Bit DLL not found: C:\project\splee\Hunspellx86.dll".
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Using the C# NHunspell how do I check words?
Using the C# NHunspell, how do I check if a word is spelled correctly and if not what the correct spelling is?
I've imported the NHunspell.dll into the project. And have looked at the documentation.
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group and classify words as well as characters
I need to split on slash and then report tags. This is hunspell dictionary format. I tried to find a class on github that would do this, but could not find one.
# vi test.txt
test/S
boy
girl/SE
home/
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Intelligent spell checking
I'm using NHunspell to check a string for spelling errors like so:
var words = content.Split(' ');
string[] incorrect;
using (var spellChecker = new Hunspell(affixFile, dictionaryFile))
{
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How to use hunspell package to suggest correct words in a column in R?
I'm currently working with a large data frame containing lots of text in each row and would like to effectively identify and replace misspelled words in each sentence with the hunspell package. I was ...
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On MacOS, hunspell can't find existing .aff and .dic files in Library/Spelling/
I have downloaded hunspell with a brew command, and want to use it in Emacs, but hunspell doesn't seem to locate my *.aff and *.dic files in ~/Library/Spelling, even though they are there.
With the ...
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Spelling libraries (like hunspell) in UWP Applications?
I am porting an application for writers to the UWP platorm. The only piece of the puzzle i have left is the NHunspell library. I use it extensively for spell checking and thesaurus features. I've ...
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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-...
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spell checker uses language model
I look for spell checker that could use language model.
I know there is a lot of good spell checkers such as Hunspell, however as I see it doesn't relate to context, so it only token-based spell ...
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cannot open 'libhunspell.lib' when trying to install hunspell for python
Im trying to install the ‘hunspell’ package for python 3.4 in windows 7 using pip,
but when running this
pip install hunspell
I get the following error message:
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot ...
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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 ...
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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 <hunspell.h>
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pip install hunspell: Cannot open include file: 'hunspell.h': No such file or directory
I'm trying to pip install hunspell on my windows 10 x64 machine, but I get the following error:
C:\Users\a>pip install hunspell
Collecting hunspell
Using cached hunspell-0.3.3.tar.gz
Installing ...
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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 ...
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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 (...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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, ...
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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):
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 : ...
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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 ...
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Write to file cut off
My goal is to take a file of sentences, apply some basic filtering, and output the remaining sentences to a file and the terminal. I'm using the Hunspell library.
Here's how I get sentences from the ...
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NodeJS: loading ES Modules and native addons in the same project
Before the actual questions (see at the end), please let me show the steps that lead to that question through an example:
Creating the project
tests$ mkdir esm && cd esm
tests/esm$ nvm -v
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How to check spelling in Hunspell with case insensitive
Hi I am making a desktop application (C#) that checks the spelling of the inputted word. I am using Hunspell which I added to my project using NuGet. I have 2 files the aff file and the dic file.
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Hunspell, unmunch - dump whole dictionary, encoding error
I'd like dump hunspell's pl_PL dictionary.
I found the solution: unmunch /usr/share/hunspell/pl_PL.dic /usr/share/hunspell/pl_PL.aff
But there's problem with encoding.
Part of the output:
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