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I'm attempting to hack together a handwriting to speech patch.

So far I have an e-pen connected to my laptop running the Myscript Stylus software which allows almost realtime handwriting recognition. It performs alot better than the built in recognition on OSX and a bit better than the built in recognition on Windows 7. Dunno if its better in 8 yet.

Anyway I'm not expecting 100% accuracy and I'm not even attempting to reproduce every written word - just snippets - but I thought it would improve things if I could perform realtime spell check or at least filter out 'words' which weren't in the dictionary.

Currently I am 'writing' into a textedit patcher. Any idea if or how I could check and/or autocorrect text as it goes in?

realtime-spellcheck

Looks like the easiest solution might be to use a web api for each word - but this relies on the internet so not the best solution for me.

There is a js solution but I'd need to run a local server.

There are offline java and python solutions. I had a look into this but confused as to what I'd have to do to make a Java library mxj compatible.

Similarly confused as to whether I can add python modules to jython.

Hmm so a bit of research later.....
Looks like the easiest solution might be to use a web api for each word - but this relies on the internet so not the best solution for me.

There are offline java and python solutions. I had a look into this but confused as to what I'd have to do to make a Java library mxj compatible.
Similarly confused as to whether I can add python modules to jython.

Any time saving suggestions are welcome!


Ok so I've found a solution but its a very clumsy hack.

I'm running a local server and have made a web page which takes a word as an html argument localserver/page.html?word and then sends this to a js spellchecker running locally and receives a true or false answer in a javascript variable, depending on whether the word is in the dictionary.

I tried to use maxurl to get this variable but couldn't work our how - I could only get php variables.

So I dynamically changed the page title with javascript and using jweb I can get the page title and parse it to see if my word is in the dictionary or not. Alternatively I can get spelling suggestions.

If anyone ever reads all of this I would very much appreciate showing me the far simpler solution which I'm sure exists.

Realtime Spellcheck