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About ALECSO Spell Checker

This project aims at developing an open-source Arabic Spelling Checker to be available on the Web for helping users with correcting errors that might occur when writing Arabic texts.

Software functionality

• Detecting the written word state: correct or wrong
• Suggesting the possible correct alternatives of a misspelled word
• Allowing the user to choose the suitable correct alternative

Installation

• How to install it in Gnu/Linux
• How to install it in Windows(Tm)

A- How to install it in Gnu/Linux

• For OpenOffice.org:

  a. Manual installation using .dic and .aff files:

  1. Install any spellchecker for any language for OOo;
  2. Close Openoffice.org's quickstarter if it is activate;
  3. Copy the two files ar.dic & ar.aff to /usr/share/myspell/dicts/
       cp ar.dic /usr/share/myspell/dicts/
       cp ar.aff /usr/share/myspell/dicts/
  4. Edit etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst to add:
         DICT ar TN ar
  5. From Tools -> options -> parameters linguistic: linguistic, Edit openoffice.org hunspell spellchecker and choose the languge arabic (tunis) [it must have the "ABC" flag].
  

  b. Auto installation using .oxt file:

  1. From (Tools -> Extesion Manager -> Add..) locate .oxt file and installation shuold be started.
  2. Restart Openoffice.org applications if necessary (includeing quickstarter if it is activate).
  

B- How to install it in Window(Tm)

• For OpenOffice.org:

  a. Manual installation using .dic and .aff files:

  1. Install any spellchecker for any language for OOo;
  2. Close Openoffice.org's quickstarter if it is activate;
  3. Copy the two files ar.dic & ar.aff to \Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.1\share\dict\ooo
  4. Edit \Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.1\share\dict\ooodictionary.lst to add:
         DICT ar TN ar
  5. From Tools -> options -> parameters linguistic: linguistic, Edit openoffice.org hunspell spellchecker and choose the languge arabic (tunis) [it must have the "ABC" flag].
  

  b. Auto installation using .oxt file:

  - Same steps as in Linux