It is aimed to find grammatical and stylistic errors in a text. The text can be copy pasted or typed in, the feedback with suggestions on the text is provided in a preview window instantly. The tool does not promise support for spell checking, however, it did underline some spell errors in tests, while some grammar and style errors were not detected.
LanguageTool is an Open Source style and grammar checker for English, French, German, Polish, Dutch, Romanian, and other languages.
LanguageTool as a software to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect, e.g. mixing up there/their, no/now etc. It can also detect some grammar mistakes. It does not include spell checking.
LanguageTool will only find errors for which a rule is defined in its XML configuration files. Rules for more complicated errors can be written in Java.
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