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Harmonia Spell Checker

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A fast, accurate, and feature-rich Python spell checker - a powerful alternative to pyspellchecker with advanced features and optimized performance.

🚀 Features

  • High Performance: Optimized dictionary loading and word lookup algorithms
  • Accurate Suggestions: Advanced algorithms for spelling suggestions:
    • Levenshtein distance with optimized implementation
    • Phonetic matching with Soundex algorithm
    • Context-aware weighted suggestions
  • Flexible Word Handling:
    • Support for hyphenated words
    • Contractions and possessives detection
    • Automatically derived word forms
  • Robust Output Options:
    • Interactive command-line interface
    • Detailed HTML reports with hover suggestions
    • Markdown report generation
    • Customizable output formats
  • Developer-Friendly:
    • Clean, well-documented API
    • Highly customizable settings
    • Comprehensive error handling
    • Memory-efficient implementation

📦 Installation

pip install harmoniapy

🖥️ CLI Usage

Check a file for spelling errors:

# Basic usage
harmonia check myfile.txt

# Show suggestions for each error
harmonia check myfile.txt --suggest

# Generate HTML report with hover suggestions
harmonia check myfile.txt --suggest --html report.html

# Generate Markdown report
harmonia check myfile.txt --suggest --markdown report.md

# Ignore specific words
harmonia check myfile.txt --ignore ignored-words.txt

# Show version information
harmonia --version

💻 Python API Usage

from harmonia import Dictionary, check_file

# Initialize dictionary (loads automatically)
dictionary = Dictionary()

# Check file with suggestions
errors = check_file("myfile.txt", dictionary, suggest=True)

# Process errors
for error in errors:
    print(f"Error: {error['word']} at line {error['line']}")
    if error['suggestions']:
        print(f"Suggestions: {', '.join(error['suggestions'])}")

# Generate HTML report
from harmonia.formatters import generate_html_report
with open("myfile.txt") as f:
    text = f.read()
html_report = generate_html_report(text, errors)
with open("report.html", "w") as f:
    f.write(html_report)

📊 HTML Report

The HTML report shows the text with red underlines for misspelled words. Hover over any underlined word to see spelling suggestions.

🔄 Comparison with pyspellchecker

Feature Harmonia pyspellchecker
Suggestion algorithm Multi-algorithm hybrid Primarily edit distance
Phonetic matching ✅ Soundex ❌ Not included
Word frequency ✅ Wikipedia-based ✅ Basic frequency
HTML reports ✅ Interactive ❌ Not included
Misspellings DB ✅ Extensive ✅ Limited
Performance ✅ Highly optimized ⚠️ Standard
Custom dictionaries ✅ Supported ✅ Supported
Hyphenated words ✅ Advanced handling ⚠️ Basic support
Derived word forms ✅ Automatic ❌ Not included

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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