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LanguageTool through server mode

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Example usage

>>> import language_tool
>>> lang_tool = language_tool.LanguageTool("en-US")
>>> text = "A sentence with a error in the Hitchhiker’s Guide tot he Galaxy"
>>> matches = lang_tool.check(text)
>>> len(matches)
2

Check out some Match object attributes:

>>> matches[0].fromy, matches[0].fromx
(0, 16)
>>> matches[0].ruleId, matches[0].replacements
('EN_A_VS_AN', ['an'])
>>> matches[1].fromy, matches[1].fromx
(0, 50)
>>> matches[1].ruleId, matches[1].replacements
('TOT_HE', ['to the'])

Print a Match object:

>>> print(matches[1])
Line 1, column 51, Rule ID: TOT_HE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'to the'?
Suggestion: to the
... with a error in the Hitchhiker’s Guide tot he Galaxy
                                           ^^^^^^

Automatically apply suggestions to the text:

>>> language_tool.correct(text, matches)
'A sentence with an error in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy'

Installation

You can use the setup.py script:

$ ./setup.py install

On Windows, you can use one of the MSI binary packages provided on the download page.

Requirements

The installation process should take care of downloading LanguageTool (it may take a few minutes). Otherwise, you can manually download LanguageTool-stable.zip and unzip it into a subdirectory inside the language_tool package.

LanguageTool requires Java 6 or later.

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