Web Based Spell Checkers

Investigated for the SpellCheckerPluginDev.

http://www.spellchecker.net/

• multiple languages
• spelling, grammar, thesaurus
• very nice UI
• licensed version that we could host locally is $3500
• Unix version is available (no grammar checking though)
• has nearly all the features we'd like

http://www.hotlingo.com/

• Java applet
• Shareware
• Good UI
• MS Internet Explorer 5.0+ only
• English only
• Implemented as a client-side browser plug-in?

http://w3future.com/html/xmlrpc.html

• Demo only? Uses xml/rpc technology described at http://www.stuffeddog.com/speller/doc/rpc.html
• Interesting UI: Each spelling error is a hyperlink and when selected the options are listed in another box. When one of those options are selected, that word is replaced in the text.
• Uses an RPC server and Ispell

http://www.wintertree-software.com/dev/spellcheckapplet/index.html

• Appears very quickly
• Good UI
• Only requires Java script
• Has a user dictionary for the site, is editable inside a window
• Has settings to ingore mixed caps (WikiWords)
• Has user entered correction field
• Ignore/change (all)
• $500 per server

http://spellex.com/sdks/web_based.htm

• Cost?
• Applet-based
• Good UI
• No custom dictionary option is listed

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xspell/

• XSpell is a spell checker for HTML forms. It is composed of a XML-RPC based browser client written in Javascript (requires IE 5.x since it's based on DOM) and an XML-RPC service implemented in PHP 4+. Both of these components are OpenSource.

-- MikeBarton - 18 Jan 2002 -- RichardDonkin - 18 Jan 2002

WBOSS "Web Based Open Source Spell Checker"

• http://www.dontpokebadgers.com/spellchecker/
• Uses Aspell or Ispell, looks as if the Lignua::Ispell module has been integrated into this source
• Uses IPC::Open3. Some systems only come with IPC::Open2, so you may have to install IPC::Open3 in addition.
• Users running a browser than handles JavaScript. IE5/6 or NS6 recommended.
• The WBOSS script is a perl script that runs server side

Suggested by JohnRouillard -- MikeBarton - 28 Jan 2002

Add new spell checkers here. See SpellCheckerPluginDev for development discussion.

http://www.thesolutioncafe.com/html-spell-checker.html

• Spell check any form on an HTML based web page, ie, ASP, JSP, CGI, PHP, HTML, etc.
• $169.95 US / Server
• One Year of Free support and Upgrades
• Clean JavaScript only client-side interface
• Online since 1996
• Installers for Windows and Unix based servers
• Spell Checkers available for Java applets and applications as well

http://spellerpages.sourceforge.net/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/spellerpages/)

• Home page blurb: Speller Pages is a Web interface and JavaScript library for a server-side spell check program. Available in PHP or Perl/CGI versions, Speller Pages allows you to bring the superior spelling suggestion capabilites of GNU Aspell to users of your Web site.
• Free (open source)
• Perl
• Frontend to GNU Aspell (server-side)