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languagetool LanguageTool

LanguageTool is a style and grammar proofreading software for English, French, German, Polish, Dutch, Romanian, and a lot of other languages.

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latest release: 2024-10-17 09:16:11

Description

IMPORTANT NOTE: The LanguageTool extension is no longer supported. The successor is WritingTool, a writing assistant for LibreOffice, based on LanguageTool (see writingtool.org)

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LanguageTool is a style and grammar proofreading software for English, French, German, and many other languages. You can think of LanguageTool as a software to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect, e.g. mixing up there/their, no/now etc. It can also detect some grammar mistakes.

Supported languages are: Asturian, Belarusian, Breton, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, Galician, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Ukrainian. Please note that the level of support differs a lot between languages.

NOTE: Starting with LibreOffice 7.4, LanguageTool can be used from LibreOffice without this add-on. However, there are some reasons to use the extension:

  • The extension runs on the local machine. No remote server is needed.
  • The extension supports all rules working on the level of full text (e.g., opening and closing quotes are recognized even if they are more than one paragraph away from each other).
  • The extension automatically adds all lists of correctly spelled words (according to LanguageTool) to the dictionaries used by LibreOffice.
  • The extension supports grammar checking of Impress and Calc documents (Only manual checking by the LT check dialog. An automated check is not supported by LibreOffice.)
  • The extension offers a configuration dialog:
    • Easily activate / deactivate optional rules
    • Easily deactivate / reactivate default rules
    • Define custom colors and styles for rule groups or single rules
    • Change parameters for some special rules
    • Define profiles to check different kinds of documents

If you have trouble with the installation, please see our checklist.

You can always get the latest version of this add-on at https://languagetool.org/download/LanguageTool-stable.oxt - the version linked here at extensions.libreoffice.org might not be up-to-date.

 

Homepage: https://www.languagetool.org

Repository: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

Release Description Compatibility Operating Systems License Release notes Updated  
6.4 error detection updates / bug fixes / increase in performance 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL New error detection rules and updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Bug fixes

Increase in performance
2024-04-15 08:00:25 Download
6.3.1 Bug fixes / Increase in performance 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL Bug fixes

Increase in performance of the extension
2024-01-02 13:09:49 Download
6.3 error detection updates / bug fixes 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL New error detection rules and updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Bug fixes
2023-10-14 16:34:42 Download
6.2 error detection updates / bug fixes 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL New error detection rules and updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Bug fixes
2023-08-08 12:35:33 Download
6.1.1 error detection updates / bug fixes 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL New error detection rules and updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Bug fixes
2023-05-13 12:13:30 Download
6.0 error detection updates / bug fixes 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL New error detection rules for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Bug fixes
2023-01-09 20:53:02 Download
5.9.1 error detection updates / bug fixes 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL New error detection rules for Catalan, Dutch, English, German, French, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Bug fixes
2022-11-08 17:10:42 Download
5.7 error detection updates 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL Error detection updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. 2022-03-30 13:41:38 Download
5.6 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL Error detection updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. 2022-01-28 21:25:53 Download
5.5.1 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL Bug fixes. 2021-10-20 12:22:52 Download
5.5 error detection updates 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL Error rule updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. 2021-10-02 15:32:23 Download
5.4 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL Changes include error detection updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, Galician, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. 2021-06-26 12:14:27 Download
5.3 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL Error detection updates for Arabic, Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. 2021-04-13 17:29:43 Download
5.2.3 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL Bug fixes 2021-02-17 09:21:01 Download
5.2.2 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL Bug fixes 2021-01-18 15:42:08 Download
5.2.1 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL Bug fixes 2021-01-11 20:44:21 Download
5.2 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL Error detection updates for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. 2020-12-29 19:09:51
5.1.3 5.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL Bug fixes 2020-10-22 21:19:32 Download
4.1 Error detection updates for Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, Galician, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. 4.0 Linux, Windows, macOS LGPL 2020-03-05 23:01:00 external link
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  • Janusz Kyć Dec 25, 2020, 7:04 PM (4 years ago)

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    Pisząc wierszem, dodatek na końcu każdego wersu sugeruje kropkę, co jest błędem i nonsensem.

  • Neil Dec 14, 2020, 12:27 PM (4 years ago)

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    Does what it says on the tin. For some reason I could not find it with the search option on the extensions website. But the Language Tool website has a link.

  • Aghart Dec 12, 2020, 1:26 PM (4 years ago)

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    Works as intended.

  • JN Dec 11, 2020, 3:34 AM (4 years ago)

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    It was much harder than it should be to find out that one needs to install this extension. Downloading it was slow and installation was somewhat non-intutive. And then I find that when I finally get the thing to run - and, er, not run multiple simultaneous copies of the proofing window - it has dropped the proofing window out of HiDPI and is too small to read.

    This is like the bad old days of Linux. It's disastrous. I will have to uninstall the edition to make any type of proofing within Libre Office usable.

    I am on Mint Cinnamon with LibreOffice 6.4.6.2.

  • Paweł Dec 10, 2020, 1:14 PM (4 years ago)

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    It seems that v5.1.3 does not work with the LibreOffice 7. It crashes the LO. :(

  • stef9999 Oct 7, 2020, 8:10 PM (4 years ago)

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    actual version 5.1.1 see homepage

  • Mehen Aug 23, 2020, 9:32 PM (4 years ago)

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    Keep in mind it's far from perfect though.

    "Can you do plan by yourself? Yoda I speak like and check grammar I do." doesn't have any errors, according to LanguageTools.

    • Daniel Naber Oct 4, 2020, 10:47 AM (4 years ago)

      LT isn't optimized to find errors that people artificially add to their text.

  • stef9999 Jul 10, 2020, 11:33 PM (4 years ago)

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    actual version 5.0.1

    • JOSEPH Jul 23, 2020, 11:47 AM (4 years ago)

      This one crashes my Libre Office v6.4, please help with solutions if you can.

  • lordmax Jun 17, 2020, 10:35 AM (4 years ago)

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    Very great job, thanks

  • Alex May 25, 2020, 8:23 AM (5 years ago)

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    Good product. May be add tool, which manipulate user's dictionarys...

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