Script that automatic Spell-checking / correcting for a given input file/text

Description

A script to implement spell checking and rectifying for a given input text in PDF form, Word Doc or other popular format. A great feature that can be used for automated software that does answer-sheet checking, Resume anaylsis or a tool to improve language.

Language

• Go
• Javascript
• Python

Checklist:

• Details on the Script

name	about	labels	assignees
Spell-checker	Script to perform a spell checking/ correcting for the text	JavaScript, Python, good-first-issue, medium

Describe the solution you’d like: Spell checking tools are a quite helpful for various tasks especially in language-based applications. This script can provide much value for implementing such feature.

Additional context:

The must-have features: Spell Checking, logging the mistaken words etc. Good to have features: Grammatical mistakes also checked and suggests changes.

Not needed to change those words in the file. As the first iteration, just logging/telling the use where one can improve and what to improve can be a good start. Make sure the line numbers are logged along as well. There are various npm packages and python Libs available for doing this.

Though, it is not limited to this. Would love to discuss how and what can be done. Feel free to ping me re: this feature implementation.

[sohamsshah]

@tanishq-arya I suppose you are on the right track. For the punctuation marks, there might be some method in nltk that can be used; or if you are stuck for that; since it is only for spelling checks, only alphanum is required for this purpose as special chars won’t be considered in this. Hope this helps!

[sohamsshah]

Can I work on this in python under gssoc?

Sure. Excited to see your implementation and script. Feel free to seek help, will be active on responses 😃 Good luck!