Comments on: SpellCheck

By: michael cardeiro

michael cardeiro — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:06:31 +0000

you can build your own dictionary. There is a script included in the spellcheckFiles folder called “build dictionary”. You need to find a text file with all the words of the Spanish dictionary on a separate line. When you run the script it will ask you for the text file then it will build a new dictionary from the text file.

The only unknown is how it will deal with accents and tildes; I think it will be fine, let me know how you make out.

By: BIOHAZARDVIDEO

BIOHAZARDVIDEO — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:21:35 +0000

it doesn’t work in spanish right? it’s very helpfull, but, It make’s me think, if there was a way to use the Microsoft Word SpellCheck maybe it can be abble to change the language to any of the SpellCheck in Word. Anyway thank you very much, this will be so much helpfull, I just don’t know why I didn’t think it a bout before!

By: mike cardeiro

mike cardeiro — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:58:23 +0000

Pablo,
when I fist wrote the script, I found a dictionary file by googling until I found what I needed (and you will need) which is a text file with every (or nearly every) spanish word, one word on each line.

The only issue I see in doing this is I do not know how the script will handle letters with accents. Good luck, let me know how you make out…If I come across a spanish dictionary I’ll post the link.

By: pablo

pablo — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:40:56 +0000

Mike. I’d love to use your spell checker in spanish, but i have no idea where i could find such a list of words. A spell check dictionary isn’t like a regular dictionary as you well know. I needs to contain every conjugation and tense of the word. For example: go, goes, going, gone, went, etc… Any idea where one could find such a list in spanish? Could i cannibalize some existing spell check dictionary from Word? Where did you find your list?
thanks

By: mike cardeiro

mike cardeiro — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:48:09 +0000

it should be a text file with each word on a seperate line.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:34:26 +0000

Hi MC, what kind file / “master list” for create new dictionary, txt or doc ?

By: mike cardeiro

mike cardeiro — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:29:18 +0000

I worked with this user on the problem. It turns out he did not have the preference “allow scripts to write access files across the network” in the general preferences enabled.

The script will still work with this turned off but you will now be able to get suggestions or add words to the dictionary.

Mike Cardeiro

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:39:18 +0000

Hi,
I purchased the spell checker script and installed it in CS5 however, the “suggest” feature and library are not functioning.
Can you go over the procedure of how to properly install so that the dictionary works properly?
Thank you.

By: Brian DeViteri

Brian DeViteri — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:03:40 +0000

Thanks to Mike’s help with this!

FYI, on a Mac (OS X 10.5.8) the list of all the entries in the “add word to dictionary” is located in:
Macintosh HD/Users/***USERNAME***/Documents/.userWords.txt

This is a HIDDEN file. I was able to easily access the file using FileZilla FTP client and browsing locally. Rename the file, drag to desktop to view. Drag the file back, then rename again to have your changes saved.

By: Brian DeViteri

Brian DeViteri — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:41:36 +0000

Where is the default list of all the words that have been added to the dictionary using the “add word to dictionary” button? Using OS X 10.5.8 and AE CS4. Words added this way are not being added to the “userWords.txt” file and I cannot seem to find where they are being placed…

Any help would be appreciated.

By: Michael Cardeiro

Michael Cardeiro — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:56:38 +0000

Balarama,

Included with the spellcheck script is a script called buildDictionary (it is in the spellCheckFiles folder). This script will build a dictionary for use with the script from a text file that contains every word on a seperate line.

Get a text document that has every word in the spanish dictionary on separate line to create a dictionary structure for use with spellcheck

-Go to the spellChekFiles folder that you are running spellcheck from and delete the dictionary folder

-run the build dictionary script and when it asks for a dictionary file navigate to the text file that has all the spanish words.

-the script build a new dictionary folder for use with spellcheck.

that should do it , I am not sure if the accents will cause a problem with spellcheck so I would love to hear if it works out for you.

Mike Cardeiro

By: Balarama Munoz

Balarama Munoz — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:33:01 +0000

is it posible to install some how the spa;ish dictionary for the pellcheck??

By: Mike Cardeiro

Mike Cardeiro — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:36:49 +0000

The only data that gets sent over the web is a misspelled word, and the only time it is sent is if you hit the “suggest word” button. So if you accidentally spell “dog as “dg” when you hit “suggest word” the characters dg get sent to a website thatsends back a list of possible words that you may have meant by dg ( this is done for speed…it took nearly 15 seconds a word when I tried to code the functionality directly into the script ).

dont know what kind of NDAs you are signing but I cannot see how your computer sending out a misspelled word over the web could be a breach, then again, I’m no lawyer.

Mike Cardeiro

By: guest

guest — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:44:14 +0000

since the script sends data to your website it is virtually impossible to use it in a real production environment because of all the NDAs. maybe there will be a “stand alone version (offline)” some time down the road?

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