2018-06-11
2.0.1
Renato Pauleta
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[Overview]
Hunspell is a spell checker
[Detail]
Hunspell is the spell checker of LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox 3 & Thunderbird, Google Chrome, and it is also used by proprietary softwares, like Mac OS X, memoQ, Opera and SDL Trados.
Feature List
Extended support for language peculiarities;
Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology.
Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronounciation data.
Morphological analysis, stemming and generation.
Hunspell is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries.
C++ library under GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license.
Interfaces and ports:
Enchant (Generic spelling library from the Abiword project), XSpell (Mac OS X port, but Hunspell is part of the OS X from version 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and now it is enough to place Hunspell dictionary files into ~/Library/Spelling or /Library/Spelling for spell checking), Delphi, Java (JNA, JNI), Perl,
.NET,
Python, Ruby ([1], [2], [3]), UNO.
It uses local dictionary sources, so no outside connection is required
Main Benefits
Local dictionary sources, no need for outside connections
Easy to use and to replace and use other dictionary languages. Just go to OpenOffice Dictionaries and download your language "oxt"; rename it to "zip" and extract two files with "aff" and "dic" extensions; load them into your hunspell eSpace resources and start using
System Requirements and Limitations
Service Studio 6.0.0.9, Platform Server 6.0.0.10
Needs some optimization's when breaking the text to do the spell checking