You don't need to reinvent the wheel. You don't want to reinvent the wheel. You want a moderately priced spellchecker to provide your application with reliability, accuracy, and some competitive sizzle like multiple languages, specialty dictionaries for fields such as law or medicine which can be used with the normal dictionary and provide accurate and insightful suggestions to your user. Congratulations, you have found SpellWright.
SpellWright's suggestion algorithms take into account the sound of the word, common typographical errors such as transposed or missing letters, and erroneously concatenated words such as "stucktogether."
You control the spell checking session of the application. You may open up to 32 dictionaries of six different types and select which dictionaries are searched for a given word and which dictionaries are used to generate suggestions.
MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
When you incorporate SpellWright, you will broaden the appeal of your international and multinational markets with multiple language capabilities. This might expand your target market considerably and give your application international visibility.
You can create your own special lexicons which can be used to spellcheck languages or words with character sets which are not usually available in a spellchecker, and provide meaningful suggestions to your users.
You can also look up words by pattern. (e.g., "comp*" finds all words which begin with "comp").
These features are available in the following languages, and are included in your licensing fee.
American English
This is a dictionary of approximately 115,000 of the most frequently used words in American English. This dictionary also contains the names of the American and Canadian States and Provinces, as well as the names of their largest cities.
British English
The British Dictionary is the same as the American Dictionary except that it has been tuned to reflect the differences found in British English.
Dutch
The Dutch Dictionary is our largest dictionary. This dictionary contains a whopping 180,000 words and is sure to satisfy your Dutch spellchecking needs.
French
French is the language of some of the word's most famous romantics. Our French Dictionary has almost 140,000 words in it.
Spanish
Spanish speaking countries are one of the largest non-English speaking software markets. You will be greatly aided in your pursuit of this market with SpellWright's Spanish dictionary of almost 90,000 words.
SUPPLEMENTAL DICTIONARIES
In addition to the above five dictionaries, we have also included supplemental English dictionaries to use in your application. Professionals working in their respective fields have provided these specialized lexicons. The following are included and more are being developed by our staff.
Legal
Designed for legal professionals, this dictionary contains more than 35,000 legal terms used in the legal profession. Included are legal terms, famous case names, and the names of all the previous Supreme Court Justices. In addition, this dictionary also contains terms which are not legal terms but are frequently encountered in the legal profession.
Medical
Over 100,000 terms from the medical and pharmaceutical fields are included in our medical dictionary. The terms carefully selected for use in this dictionary come from a wide variety of medical fields so as to accurately serve you and your customers spell checking needs. Domains covered include anatomy, bacteriology, chemistry, dentistry, endocrinology, enzymology, genetics and genetic diseases, immunology, infectious diseases, pharmacology, psychiatry, psychology, surgery, and more.
Names
Our dictionary of over 40,000 personal names is perfect for verifying accuracy for those professionals who perform data entry. The dictionary includes both first names and surnames. The Names Dictionary was culled from a number of nationalities so as to give your customers as broad a range of names as possible as well as to provide you with the most frequent names no matter where your customers live. An important resource for checking material where names are used frequently such as customer database systems.
Post Offices
The Post Office Dictionary contains the names of all of the post offices throughout the United States (with the exception of part of Alaska). This dictionary is a valuable resource for applications which require data entry such as order fulfillment software.
Religious
This Religious dictionary contains over 5,000 theological terms as well as proper and place names which are cited in the King James Version of the Bible and other religious works. The Religious Dictionary is a valuable resource for those who are writing religious software.
Science
This dictionary provides 25,000 terms which have been taken from a large number of scientific disciplines. Terms have been carefully selected from fields such as aerospace, biology, chemistry, engineering, geology, mathematics, mechanics and physics.
MULTIPLE DICTIONARIES
You can have open up to 32 dictionaries at the same time. Words can be checked against all open dictionaries or against specific dictionaries, or against specific types of dictionaries. You may choose from the following dictionary types to customize your application.
Main
This dictionary is used to store large amounts of words from various languages without the burden of large memory requirements. Typically, a Main Dictionary can hold several hundred thousand words from a given language though it can store more than a million words without complaint. The words are stored in a highly compressed form to speed word access as well as to reduce memory requirements. The Main Dictionary is the primary dictionary consulted when generating suggestions for a misspelled word. We have also designed the Main Dictionary so that it is very flexible. Words may be checked against the dictionary, or words may be looked up in the Main Dictionary by pattern. (e.g., "excell*" finds all words which begin with "excell".) The Main Dictionary also gives you the capability to access the words and traverse the dictionary directly so you can specify your own dictionary access routines if you choose.
User
The User Dictionary allows the user to add words which are not in the any of the currently open dictionaries. Unlike most spell checkers, the User Dictionary can be consulted when generating suggestions for a misspelled word. The User Dictionary may be saved to disk and later reopened. In addition, the User Dictionary provided by SpellWright can hold several hundred thousand words without any problem.
Skip
The Skip Dictionary contains words which are considered correctly spelled. This is often used to implement an "Ignore All" feature. For instance, a user may use a word frequently throughout their document and it is not in one of the dictionaries. They user might then want to skip this word throughout the rest of the document -- this can be done with the Skip Dictionary. Words in the Skip Dictionary are represented in a compressed format to speed access and reduce memory usage. SpellWright allows over several hundred thousand words to be added to the Skip Dictionary given enough memory.
Document
SpellWright provides the capability for the developer to specify how much memory is used to "cache" correctly spelled words from the current document. This is done via a Document Dictionary. The Document Dictionary automatically has words added to it which were found in the Main, User, and Skip dictionaries during the spellcheck session. By consulting the Document Dictionary before consulting the other dictionaries, SpellWright's speed is greatly enhanced. As with the Skip and User Dictionaries, the Document Dictionary may hold a virtually unlimited number of words.
Auto
An "Automatic Dictionary" (or Auto Dictionary) is used to automatically replace one word with another. This can be used to correct frequent spelling errors automatically as the user types. Unlike most dictionaries which hold only a single word, the Auto Dictionary contains both a misspelled word as well as its correction. For instance, a user could add a misspelling such as "eth" and the correction "the" to the Auto Dictionary and SpellWright will notify your program to substitute the correction for the misspelled word whenever the misspelled word is used.
In addition, the AUTO dictionary can be used to create a "Glossary Function" which can be used to automatically replace one word with one or more words. For example, "U.S." could be automatically replaced with "United States of America". The Auto Dictionary may also be used for a "Replace All" function.
Suggest
This is an optional dictionary which contains user designated suggestions. The Suggest Dictionary can be used to suggest replacements for over-used words or words which a user often confuses such as "effect" and "affect". The Suggest Dictionary also allows users to append a comment to a suggestion to be displayed when the flagged word is found. A user, for example, might flag the word "except" and suggest "accept" with the comment "To accept something."
ACCURATE SUGGESTIONS
You will enjoy the fact that SpellWright includes only the most advanced spellchecking technology. Proprietary suggestion enhancing technology has been placed on top of the algorithms which for years have been the standard for large scale commercial spellcheckers. In addition, the suggestion algorithms have been highly optimized for speed so that your customers will enjoy the convenience.
Your users can create their own dictionaries which have the same suggestion technology as is used in the Main Dictionaries. These dictionaries can contain technical words your users use frequently. Examples include "floropentachloroethane", "escherichia", and "ATPace". If equations are stored in a uniform format, these too can be added to the User Dictionary and be spellchecked like anything else. And when an equation or other user word is spelled incorrectly, suggestions can be offered as to their correct meaning.
BEYOND SPELLING
Besides spelling errors, SpellWright watches for other typing errors which occur frequently in documents. If SpellWright sees something which could be an error, it will notify your program.
Capitalization
SpellWright checks for capitalization errors such as "CApitalize". While this technology to check for this kind of error is quite simple, many spellcheckers don't even provide it. The capitalization feature works across all languages which use the ASCII or extended ASCII character sets.
Double Words
SpellWright will notify your program if the same word is used twice twice in succession.
MEMORY MANAGEMENT
SpellWright employs an advanced memory management scheme which is highly flexible. The amount of memory used to cache the Main Dictionaries may be restricted to a specific amount or, one or more dictionaries may be loaded entirely into memory for the duration of the spellcheck session. In addition, the programmer has complete control of how much RAM is used to automatically cache the most frequently used words.
To save memory the Main Dictionaries (which are the primary memory users) are highly compressed on both disk and in memory and are decompressed "on the fly" while they are being read. This drastically reduces the amount of drive space and RAM needed by SpellWright to perform its operations. The English word lists for example (composed of 115,000 words) are compressed to approximately one fourth of their original size or to around 260K.
ROYALTY FREE
We are pleased to announce that there are no royalties for using SpellWright in your applications. To meet the royalty free requirements, the application which includes SpellWright must not be part of a toolkit, or a stand alone spellchecker. The application(s) which SpellWright is included in must also be "significant in value" compared to the spellchecker.
UPDATES
We are always continuing to improve the performance of our products as well as the scope of their capabilities. To help you keep your customers and products up to date with the latest in spellchecking technology, we will provide free updates for all registered users for a period of one (1) year from the date of purchase. In addition, to the latest spellchecking technology, we will provide new or revised dictionaries with the updates as they become available.
CUSTOM FEATURES
Some applications require highly specialized spellchecking or other lexical technology. When this is the case, our specialized staff can work with you to provide a complete solution to your application's needs.
SUPPORT
Free phone support is available to all registered customers.
PRICING
SpellWright is currently available to the developer for $895.
