spell-check

Automatically find and fix spelling errors in your READMEs and other documents that you write without a word processor. spell-check is a fast command line application to spell-check large text files (books, Github files, assignments etc.) and autocorrect misspelled words based on a probabilistic model. The program is optimized for speed and can check over 1 million words in less than 1 second.

Checking Documents

Download and Install from source

$ wget -P ~/Downloads https://github.com/madhav-datt/spell-check/archive/v2.0.zip
$ unzip ~/Downloads/spell-check-2.0.zip
$ mv ~/Downloads/spell-check-2.0 ~/Downloads/spell-check
$ chmod +x spell-check/install
$ sudo spell-check/install

Running spellchecker

$ spellcheck /path/to/file/file_to_be_checked

The program supports spellchecking and auto-correct for txt files and PDF files. You could also batch process multiple files inside a directory.

Output

The program will output a list of all the misspelled words along with suggested corrections, and file checking benchmarks.

oficiel, which was intended to be official has no suggested correction because it has an edit distance of more than 1 from a correctly spelled word. Read more about this here.

spell-check will fix spelling errors due to missing spaces using a segmentation algorithm. Read more here.

Benchmarks

Both speed and accuracy benchmarks give an approximate value that has been averaged over multiple input text files and documents.

Spellcheck Speed

Optimized for speed - can spellcheck over 1 Million words in less than 1 second.

Misspelled Words	Words in Dictionary	Words in Text Document	Time in Loading Data
122.5	368895	10237257.5	0.34 seconds

Time in Checking Text	Time in Correcting Text	Time in Unloading Data	Total Time
0.56 seconds	0.01 seconds	0.15 seconds	0.98 seconds

Autocorrect Accuracy

Calculated on inputs from Roger Mitton's Birkbeck spelling error corpus from the Oxford Text Archive. On a development set of 250 test cases (including context based mistakes for correctly spelled words) the spell-check program has an accuracy of around 66 % and close to 80 % for misspelled words with an edit distance equal to one.

Word Frequency Data Details

Read about the data, sources, processing raw word data, word frequency, probabilistic model for word correction etc. here.

Known Issues

• No context based/grammar checking -

  Their is nothing to be done here.

  will be treated as a correct sentence and not be changed to

  There is nothing to be done here.

• Words with edit distances greater than 1 cannot be corrected - oficiel, won't be corrected to official.

• Doesn't fix spelling errors due to missing spaces.

  historicaldata

  will be found as misspelled, but won't be corrected to

  historical data

• Please report bugs and issues here.