Spell Check modules?

coldfingertips has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anyone know of a fast and accurate (or any spell checker at all) spell checker where you can feed @words to and have it scan each word? I came across Net::Google::Spelling but that's only used for one or few words, not paragraphs at a time.

Thanks everyone

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Re: Spell Check modules? by Cine (Friar) on Aug 02, 2003 at 16:41 UTC
Ispell, Aspell, Pspell, Lingua::Spelling:Alternative and there are problably many more... T I M T O W T D I	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Spell Check modules? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 03, 2003 at 01:03 UTC
Somebody's got to write a better search engine for CPAN...	[reply]
Re: Spell Check modules? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2003 at 15:09 UTC
See Ispell.	[reply]
Re: Spell Check modules? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2003 at 15:14 UTC
Here ya go: `my %dictionary = (); open(DICTIONARY, "<your_dictionary") or die $!; while (<DICTIONARY>) { chomp; $dict{$_} = 1; } close(DICTIONARY); while (doc_to_check) { unless ($dict{$_}) { print "$_ is spelled incorrectly.\n"; } }` [download] The key is finding a good dictionary, and providing alternative spellings when a word isn't found.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Spell Check modules? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2003 at 15:07 UTC
The closest thing I know of is GTK2::Spell. Due to the nature of the task, you're obviously going to need an external dictionary. I'd recommend you find one appropriate for your performance requirements and platform first, then writing a Perl wrapper should be straightforward, if it isn't already done.	[reply]