The Hebrew Spelling Service adds a Hebrew spelling dictionary to Mac OS X’s built-in spell checker.
System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Features
- Seamlessly integrated with Mac OS X’s built-in spell checker.
- Strictly compliant with the niqqud-less spelling rules published by the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
- Recognizes acronyms and gimatria.
- Features Hspell’s vocabulary, which contains 461,326 words (when including kinuyim on verbs) based on 12,445 nouns, 3,583 adjectives, 5,242 verb stems, and 2,216 other words.
Download and Installation
Hebrew Spelling Service (1MB disk image including Read Me files in English and in Hebrew)
To install, copy Hebrew Spelling.service from the disk image into the Services folder inside the Library folder — either the main Library folder on your hard disk or the Library folder inside your Home folder. If you copy into your Home Library folder, the Hebrew Spelling Service will be available only to you. If you copy into the main Library folder, the service will be available to all users of the computer. You must be have administrator privileges in order to copy items into the main Library folder. If there is no Services folder, make a new folder inside the Library folder, and name it Services.
The Hebrew Spelling Service is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Source Code
The Hebrew Spelling Service can be built with Xcode 3.2.1.
What’s new in this version
- Version 1.6 is powered by version 1.1 of Hspell, which adds 6,283 words to the vocabulary. It resolves issues with Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard. It is built for 64-bit.
- Version 1.5.1 fixes a bug that caused TextMate to freeze.
- Version 1.5 is powered by version 1.0 of Hspell, which adds 9,962 words to the vocabulary. It is released as a Universal application.
- Version 1.4 adds support for the word completion feature (Edit > Complete in TextEdit) and improves memory performance.
- Version 1.3.1 fixes an incompatibility with Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger.
- Version 1.3 is powered by version 0.9 of Hspell, which adds 19,372 words to the vocabulary.
Acknowledgments
The Hebrew Spelling Service is merely a front end to Hspell. Hspell was written by Nadav Har’El and Dan Kenigsberg.
Thanks to Nir Soffer contributing code and for his advice on improving the Service.