How to use spell checker with matlab?

I have written few words in text file result.txt using matlab....but there are some spelling mistakes on it... i am doing character recognition...How should i correct the spelling and show the result in the next line in the same file result.txt....can anyone help

Answer 1

[Cedric]

You could try this:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/91885-is-there-any-way-to-check-spelling-from-within-matlab

UPDATE : here is a slightly modified version (also attached)

 function wordsChecked = checkWordsSpelling( words )
    %
    %   Based on Mathworks thread:
    %   http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/91885-is-there-any-way-to-check-spelling-from-within-matlab
    %

    % - Split space-separated words into cell array of words, or wrap
    %  single word into cell array.
    if ischar( words )
        if any( words == ' ' )
            words = strsplit( words, ' ' ) ;
        else
            words = {words} ;
        end
    end

    % - Launch MS Word and create document.
    h = actxserver( 'word.application' ) ;
    h.Document.Add ;

    % - Build cell array of originals and suggestions.
    words  = words(:) ;      % -> columns cell array.
    nWords = numel( words ) ;
    for wId = 1 : nWords

        % - Check if spelling correct. Loop back if so.
        isCorrect    = h.CheckSpelling( words{wId,1} ) ;
        words{wId,2} = isCorrect ;
        if isCorrect
            words{wId,3} = false ;
            continue ;
        end

        % - Build cell array of suggestions.
        nSug = h.GetSpellingSuggestions( words{wId,1} ).count;
        words{wId,3} = nSug > 0 ;
        if nSug > 0
            for sId = 1 : nSug
                words{wId,4}{sId} = ...
                    h.GetSpellingSuggestions( words{wId,1} ).Item(sId).get( 'name' ) ;
            end
        end
    end

    % - Quit MS Word.
    h.Quit

    % - Build table (or struct array if you prefer).
    %wordsChecked = cell2struct( words, {'original', 'isCorrect', 'hasSuggestion', 'suggestion'}, 2 ) ;
    wordsChecked = cell2table( words, 'VariableNames', {'original', 'isCorrect', 'hasSuggestion', 'suggestion'} ) ;        

 end

With that, you can do the following:

 >> checked = checkWordsSpelling( 'Helloo' )
 checked = 

    original    isCorrect    hasSuggestion              suggestion           
    ________    _________    _____________    _______________________________

    'Helloo'    false        true             'Hello'    'Halloo'    'Hellos'

 >> checked = checkWordsSpelling( 'Helloo Wolrd Hello' )
 checked = 

    original    isCorrect    hasSuggestion    suggestion
    ________    _________    _____________    __________

    'Helloo'    false        true             {1x3 cell}
    'Wolrd'     false        true             {1x2 cell}
    'Hello'     true         false            []        

 >> checked.suggestion{2}
 ans = 
    'World'    'Word'

 >> checked = checkWordsSpelling( {'Helloo', 'Wolrd'} )
 checked = 

    original    isCorrect    hasSuggestion    suggestion
    ________    _________    _____________    __________

    'Helloo'    false        true             {1x3 cell}
    'Wolrd'     false        true             {1x2 cell}

Hope it helps!

[Cedric]

PS : so the code should look like the following. Using a struct/cell array as output of the spell checking function would allow you to write the full thing in 6 lines I guess, but this gives you a starting point.

 % - Read file and check spelling.
 checked = checkWordsSpelling( fileread( 'data.txt' )) ;

 % - Etxract originals or suggestions.
 nWords = size( checked, 1 ) ;
 output = cell( nWords, 1 ) ;
 for wId = 1 : nWords
    if checked.hasSuggestion(wId)
        output{wId} = checked.suggestion{wId}{1} ;
    else
        output{wId} = checked.original{wId} ;
    end
 end

 % - Build space-separated string of words.
 output = strtrim( sprintf( '%s ', output{:} )) ;

 % - Export to file.
 fId = fopen( 'dataCorrected.txt', 'w' ) ;
 fwrite( fId, output ) ;
 fclose( fId ) ;

[peyush]

thanks

[Isabelle Goy]

Hi,

thanks for the code provided. I'm using a similar spell-check on my side but I need that the spell-check done through Word uses french as a refernce language. I have tried to set it this way:

h = actxserver( 'word.application' ) ;

h.Document.Add ;

selection = h.Selection;

selection.LanguageID = 1036; % which is the code for french language

but also the code is running, this line is not taken into consideration when the spell checking is happening, or at the leat the spell checking is still happening on an english base ?

Any suggestion/help aprreciated.

[Daniel]

Some words produce an error

checked = checkWordsSpelling( 'Procuremend' )

Error using cell2table (line 77)

The VariableNames property must contain one name for each variable in the table.

Error in checkWordsSpelling (line 52)

wordsChecked = cell2table( words, 'VariableNames', {'original', 'isCorrect', ...