Description
Spell checker.
Hunspell is the spell checker of LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox 3 & Thunderbird, Google Chrome, and it is also used by proprietary software packages, like macOS, InDesign, memoQ, Opera and SDL Trados.
Main features:
- Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology.
- Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronunciation 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 (macOS port, but Hunspell is part of the macOS 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]), UNO.