Suggester Spell Check is a 100% pure Java library which provides local spell checking service.
Suggester is absolutely free for you to use with already pre-compiled dictionaries. Suggester Spell Check uses Basic Suggester Engine as a spellchecker.
Suggester Spell Check is cross-platform and it runs on any Java platform: Mac OS X, Windows, Unix, Linux. Tested on JRE 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5.
Here are some key features of "Suggester Spellcheck":
Smart suggestions:
· The Suggester uses not only shortest edit-distance measure but also the Metaphone algorithm and on top of it private fuzzy-matching algorithm to place the closest replacement in the top position in the suggestion list. You can adjust influence from each algorithm using configuration file. Run English/American Spelling Suggestions Test to see if Suggester is better then other spell-checkers in this respect.
Local service:
· Unlike Google`s Spelling API the Suggester library and a dictionary file is all you need to have local spellchecking service fully under your control. No need to worry about exposure on Internet, connectivity problems and availability of external service. No hidden fees as well.
Multi-lingual:
· See below which dictionaries / languages are available for download.
Custom dictionaries:
· The Index Builder allow users to create custom dictionaries from user`s word-list. It can also be used to extract all words from the dictionary and modify existing dictionaries. The Index Builder is available under commercial license, however we can create for free the index for you (using your word-list). Just send us email with request to create the index.
High dictionary compression:
· The word dictionary is compressed not only on a hard drive, but also in memory. Basic UK English dictionary contains about 57000 words and has a size about 90K. Full English dictionary contains about 200,000 words (including names, abbreviations, geographic places, etc.) and it takes 236Kb file on a hard drive and about 2Mb space in memory. Other languages are compressed even better. For example, full Russian dictionary contains more then 1,300,000 words (including variants) and it takes 315Kb file on a hard drive and again about 2Mb space in memory. Comparing original word list file in UTF-8 format with size more then 30Mb, the compression ratio is close to 1% (1.04% to be precise)!
High dictionary search and suggestion selection speed:
· Dictionary case dependent / independent look-up takes about 0.002 / 0.005 ms per word, which comes to speed about 500,000 / 200,000 words per second. Suggestions search speed averages about 40 ms per set of suggestions for each unknown word on Pentium M 1.4Gz (with high quality of suggestions).
Portability:
· The Suggester software entirely written in Java 1.2. Runs on any Java?? platform: Windows??, Mac OS??, Unix, Linux. Tested on JRE 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5.
Requirements:
· Java 1.2 or later
