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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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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 a Mac. Thanks, Kevin
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How to make custom dictionary for Hunspell

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 users?
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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/resources/dictionaries/en_US.dic". Still I do not see…
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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 according to my searches all of them work in an…
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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 encoding error. Missing continuation byte in 0. character…
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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 windows xp and please help me out.
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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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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 'educate' and affix rules ABC, generate all…
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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 spellchecker -- and each has a different error. I'm…
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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 (most common word first). I took a look at…
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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 (sed, grep, ...) with hunspell. Hunspell has option…
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Is Hunspell thread safe?

Is the Hunspell spelling library thread-safe?
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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 that, are there any free/opensource spellcheckers…
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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 Hunspell and subsequently using that to perform a spell…
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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: RuntimeError: 'pkg-config' is not recognized as an…
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