Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative • Hacker News Board

Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by k__ » Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 10:50 AM UTC

emarsden wrote: post #46

k__ wrote: post #37

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Is it better than Grammarly? I mean, sending all data to a Grammarly service brings the same privacy issues as sending it to Language Tool.

There is a big difference in terms of privacy: LanguageTool is open source and you can run it on your own computer. You can install it as browwer plugin, a LibreOffice plugin, or a standalone server that you can access from Emacs for example (the latter is no longer promoted on their website, but you can download JAR files from https://languagetool.org/download/ ).

Yes, but from what I got, only the basic features are open source and self-hostable. The premium features that bring it on-par to Grammarly aren't part of that.

Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by d4rkp4ttern » Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 11:20 AM UTC

Maybe slight tangent — are there popular free/cheap tools for auto-suggesting text like GitHub Copilot does for code?

CoPilot : Code :: ?? : Language

I know google docs does this to some extent but I don’t always use gdocs. I may be writing an email or writing an article for example in some editor.

Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by nikolay » Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 8:32 PM UTC

Microsoft has a free option (Microsoft Editor: Spelling & Grammar Checker) [0], which as at par with Grammarly, and now Language Tool is almost as expensive as Grammarly!

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/microsoft-editor-s...

Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by zodman » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 2:27 PM UTC

xvilka wrote: post #13

Is there something like that but without Java?

the api, checkout pylanguagetool from pypi

Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by zodman » Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 2:37 PM UTC

jmconfuzeus wrote: post #51

If you're a Vim user, install the vim-grammarous[0] plugin to get LanguageTool powered grammar checking at the speed of thought. [0] https://github.com/rhysd/vim-grammarous

double the speed, if you would like support the api :>

Re: Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative

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Post by brimwats » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 3:17 AM UTC

account-5 wrote: post #26

bartmoss wrote: post #24

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No subscription is required for the base version no account, either. Of course, the base version doesn't have all the features as premium, but it is still excellent, in my opinion. I have used the free version for years. There is an offline version, as it is open source. The full text isn't stored on the servers, but you can always just deploy it yourself for maximum privacy: https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server…

Does it work on Linux? Debain?

yeah, i have it via yunohost, which is debian-based