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Originally Posted by martyger
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This can be done (laboriously) in Sigil with spellcheck...but it could be streamlined to a few seconds with a simple Sigil plug-in. Most of the errors recur with frightening regularity -- things like weU (well) presendy (presently) '/ (,") iie (he) Td ("I'd) bom (born) bum (burn) hps (lips) gendy (gently) and so on.
I, literally, can supply a list of many hundreds of these non-words that recur in nearly every pulp conversion. It we could run a plug-in that would automatically correct *all* of these errors *before* we spellcheck, we could cut proofing time by a huge margin. The plug-in would access a database that provides a list of error-words and the corresponding fix.
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While such a calibre plugin is certainly possible, have you looked at the Search and Replace feature of Calibre's Convert?
It appears to already do exactly what I would program such a plugin to do: save and load lists of regular expressions and replacements from a text file and apply them.
I just ran a rough test of ~2500 replacement (simple) expressions on an epub of ~650k words and it took 1.5 minutes. So that should be feasible.