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SBT · 09-20-2015, 07:40 AM

@elibrarian: Thanks for the tip on the LibreOffice extensions.

Meanwhile, I've started looking into a particular problem of mine.
"My" ebooks are mostly 19th century Norwegian books, using spelling and grammar that's somewhere half-way between Danish and modern Norwegian, meaning I can't use spell-checkers, because no pre-1907 Norwegian ispell dictionary exists. However, a lot of proper proof-read digital 19th c. Norwegian texts exist (>10,000 pages).

I came across this 21-line(!) spell-checker at norvig.com, the site more famous as the origin of the PowerPoint version of the Gettysburg address

. Based on a huge reference text, it checks spelling of a word. Though oriented towards human errors like transposition, it should be possible to tweak it to look for typical OCR mistakes, like 'f00lish' and 'junip'

09-20-2015, 07:40 AM	#7
SBT Fanatic Posts: 580 Karma: 810184 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Norway Device: prs-t1, tablet, Nook Simple, assorted kindles, iPad	@elibrarian: Thanks for the tip on the LibreOffice extensions. Meanwhile, I've started looking into a particular problem of mine. "My" ebooks are mostly 19th century Norwegian books, using spelling and grammar that's somewhere half-way between Danish and modern Norwegian, meaning I can't use spell-checkers, because no pre-1907 Norwegian ispell dictionary exists. However, a lot of proper proof-read digital 19th c. Norwegian texts exist (>10,000 pages). I came across this 21-line(!) spell-checker at norvig.com, the site more famous as the origin of the PowerPoint version of the Gettysburg address. Based on a huge reference text, it checks spelling of a word. Though oriented towards human errors like transposition, it should be possible to tweak it to look for typical OCR mistakes, like 'f00lish' and 'junip'