Hunspell

2008-06-17 Hunspell 1.2.4 (742 kB). Release Notes. Dictionaries. Bug Reports. Requests. Manual.

Hunspell is the default spell checker of OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox 3 & Thunderbird.

Main features:

  • Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology.
  • Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronounciation 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: Cocoa (Mac OS X), Delphi, Java (JNA, JNI), Perl, Python, Ruby ([1], [2]), UNO.

Primary project sponsor: FSF.hu Foundation

Primary sponsor: IMEDIA Media Monitoring

Primary sponsor of the Hunspell development in 2003–2005: Budapest Technical University Media Research Centre (BME MOKK)

László Németh (e-mail: nemeth at OO.o)
FSF.hu Foundation, Hungary

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