[TriLUG] Automatic Spell Checking in Linux

[Brian Henning]

Hi Michael,

Check out aspell:

http://aspell.net

It has a "suggestion" feature with various modes of operation; I'm not
sure how you might turn it into a fully-automated process but there's
probably an option to make it automatically choose the most likely
replacement, and then pipe the output to a file.

~Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Michael Ham
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:02 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] Automatic Spell Checking in Linux

Hey guys,

My project at work is about to start OCRing thousands of pages of stuff
and
I would like some way to run an input file of messed up OCR stuff and
have
it spell check and return the most likely spellings automatically.

Think of it like Google where you type "Lnus Torvald" and it says "Did
you
mean Linus Torvald?"

So basically, does anyone know of a program that will perform all of
that
stuff automatically for a text file and then allow it to output a new
large
chunk of text with the changes made.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Michael Ham

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