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Website spell checker

  • 03-02-2011 7:08pm
    #1
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok this may be a tricky one but here goes.
    I have a website that comes in several languages, Chinese, French, English, ... The default language is English with a DB with other languages for when user sets their language to something else.

    What I'm looking for is a tool that will crawl the website (it's a big one) and look for word strings against a dictionary.
    This way I hope that when set to Spanish the crawler will find phrases in English (that haven't been translated yet) or spelling mistakes in Spanish.

    Does such a tool exist? I've been looking a while but thought I'd put a thread here if someone knows of one already.
    Free if possible but I have a budget.

    Oh and this website isn't available from the internet (yet) so tool cannot be scanning over the net.


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  • #2
    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,336 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo


    You say "tool" but I'm not sure if you want an application you can simply point at a root url an sit back or an actual tool you could use to create such a application. If it is the later you are after perhaps Lucene might interest you. As in
    http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2007/12/spelling-checker-with-lucene.html


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    The former actually, being the lazy git I am :)

    I found a few instructions how to build a tool with Ruby/Java and spell check that way - but I'm hoping to simply find a website spell checker application that uses a custom dictionary so I can use it in other languages than just English.
    Also it has to work offline.


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Ok, what I've found so far (in case someone else might need it).

    InSite
    Checkdog
    Aspose.Spell
    HTML PowerSpell - selected Cool Tool of the Day, July 8, 1997!
    Spell Checker in Website Analyzer
    SpellO
    UltimateSpell


  • #5
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    My recommendation:
    - Inspyder InSite with spell check
    Looks good, has several languages and also custom dictionary to add business words
    Can log in while spell checking.
    Also checks for broken/bad links.
    $60
    Creates report.
    At this price I can buy it even if it's only used very occasionally.

    Other tested:
    - SpellO spello.codeplex.com
    Not very feature rich but work in progress.
    Support US, UK, DE, FR, ES, MX
    $Free
    No report but is quite easy to use.

    - Microsys Website Analyzer with spell check.
    Not user friendly, could still work

    - Checkdog
    Online spell check service, no use to me as it cannot scan internal servers


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