Spell checking with InfoHandler 10
InfoHandler 10 features a build-in spellchecker that you can use for many
languages, you can feed it easily with all the words you need for your demands.
All you have to do is to copy some words to the Windows Clipboard and then let
InfoHandler collect from there the words it does not already know. The tool for
managing the SpellChecker dictionary you find on the Tools menu.
Initially the internal dictionary is filled with about 10000 frequent English
words in case of the English installation package or German words for the German
install variant. If you do not want this language you should clear the
dictionary before going on with feeding your words.
But where do you find the words to be imported to begin with? One source are
the documents stored on your own computer, the ones created by yourself (and
spell-checked by your word processor). Another source are the documents you can
copy from somewhere else. All documents would do well which you can open with
some reader program and then copy their content to the Clipboard - including
.txt and .doc files that you open with your word processor or .pdf files to open
with Adobe Reader. A third source for words are Internet webpages of the needed
language, opened with your Internet browser.
The procedure in all these cases is the same: At first open the 'Collect Words'
dialog in InfoHandler (from the Tools menu). After that open the document with
its reader and choose 'Select All' and then 'Copy' from the Edit menu. Finally
click on the 'Import from Clipboard' button at the SpellChercker dialog. Repeat
this process until you have collected at least 10.000 words as a start - you
will add more words on the fly while working with the text in InfoHandler.
In the case of a plain-text file you can import this also directly using the
'Import from File' command of the SpellChecker.
But there are still more ways to get words for your work with InfoHandler. You
can find complete dictionaries for various languages searching the Internet.
Some of these are he following:
Wordlists is a
collection of dictionaries in many languages. One of these is he Unabridged
that we copied for download to this website:
unabridged.zip (213310
English words)
Note: This and the following word lists are zipped .txt files.
After downloading und unzipping import the text file using the 'Import from
File' command button.
Moby Language lets you download 5 big dictionaries for the languages French,
German, Italien, Japanese, Spanish with a total number of 560,000 words. For
your convenience you can download these wordlists in (zipped) plain text format
and preprocessed rfor converting the multi-byte representations of accentuated
letters to their Unicode equivalents from our website:
140.000_French_Words.zip
60.000_Italian_Words.zip
110.000_Japanese_Words.zip
90.000_Spanish_Words.zip
Note: You cannot directly use the French and Spanish word lists
from this website because accentuated letters are represented as multi-character
combinations which have to be converted first to their Unicode equivalents. And
also we cannot recommend the German words from this site because umlauts are
represented as 'ae', 'ue' etc.
To provide also a larger German word list we collected almost 100.000 words
using the process described above. The websites searched included news pages of
various radio stations, books published by the Gutenberg project, pdf documents
found on science oriented sites, and more. The whole process lasted no more than
about one hour. So, if you do not find your required vocabulary in the offerings
above, do not hesitate to search the Internet for your special stock of words.
This is the file with the 100.000 German words collected browsing the Net,
created by first importing the documents via Clipboard to the InfoHandler
SpellChecker and then exporting them using its Export command.
100.000_German_Words.zip
On the (German)
website of Uni Leipzig you find word lists containing the 10,000 most
frequent words (for a defined context) for the languages French, English,
German, and Dutch. Here are the zipped text versions:
10.000_French_Words.zip
10.000_English_Words.zip
10.000_German_Words.zip
10.000_Dutch_Words.zip
The English and German versions are used to initialize the content of the
dictionary after the first installation of InfoHandler using the English resp.
German versions of the installation files.
Of course you can collect words of more than one language for your
SpellChecker, putting them all in one big local dictionary. And don't forget,
you can use the collected words not only for spell checking but also pick them
conveniently from the wordlist as you are working your text.