cn-tim/hunspell.netcore

A .NET port of Hunspell

Hunspell .NET Core

A .NET port of Hunspell for .NET and .NET Core

Download and install with NuGet: Hunspell.NetCore

Features

• Reads Hunspell DIC and AFF file formats
• Supports checking and suggesting words
• Ported to fully managed C#
• Confusing LGPL, GPL, MPL tri-license
• Compatible with .NET Core
• Compatible with multiple .NET framework versions
• Uses .NET to handle cultures and encodings

License

"It's complicated"

Read the license: LICENSE

This library was ported from the original Hunspell source and as a result is licensed under an MPL, LGPL, and GPL tri-license. Read the LICENSE file to be sure you can use this library.

Quick Start Example

using Hunspell;

namespace ConsoleApp1
{
    public class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var hunspell = HunspellDictionary.FromFile(@"English (British).dic");
            bool notOk = hunspell.Check("teh");
            var suggestions = hunspell.Suggest("teh");
            bool ok = hunspell.Check("the");
        }
    }
}

Upstream

To know how up to date this port is, check the hunspell-origin submodule.

Performance

"Good enough I guess"

The performance of this port while not fantastic relative to the original binaries and NHunspell is definitely acceptable. If you need better performance you should check out NHunspell.

Benchmark	Hunspell.NetCore	NHunspell
Dictionary Loads /s	🐢 2.2	🐇 15.92
Words Checked /s	🐢 560,499	🐇 965,254

Note: Measurements taken on a Intel 6700K with a 850 PRO 256GB.