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The purpose of Pspell (Portable Spell Checker Interface Library) was to provide a generic interface to the system spelling checking libraries. It was, and sometimes still is, used in
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such as C, and is licensed under the
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. Pspell has not been updated since 2001, but is still available on
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It has been replaced by
GNU Aspell GNU Aspell, usually called just Aspell, is a free software spell checker designed to replace Ispell. It is the standard spell checker for the GNU operating system. It also compiles for other Unix-like operating systems and Windows. The main pro ...
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PHP PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group ...
’s Pspell extension, while retaining its current name, now uses the Aspell library.


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GNU Aspell GNU Aspell, usually called just Aspell, is a free software spell checker designed to replace Ispell. It is the standard spell checker for the GNU operating system. It also compiles for other Unix-like operating systems and Windows. The main pro ...
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Hunspell Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyser designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding and character encoding, originally designed for the Hungarian language. Hunspell is based on MySpell and is backwar ...
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Ispell Ispell is a spelling checker for Unix that supports most Western languages. It offers several interfaces, including a programmatic interface for use by editors such as Emacs. Unlike GNU Aspell, ispell will only suggest corrections that are based ...
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MySpell MySpell is a spell checker that was formerly included with OOo Writer of the free OpenOffice.org office suite. Since version 2.0.2, OpenOffice.org has replaced MySpell with Hunspell. Background MySpell was started by Kevin Hendricks in an att ...
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Virastyar Virastyar ( fa, ویراستیار, meaning "editing assistant") is a Persian add-in for Microsoft Word that performs Persian spell checking, character standardization, Pinglish transliteration, punctuation correction and calendar conversion. It ...


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SourceForge.net Project InfoGNU Aspell SourceForge.net Project Info
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