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Does anyone know a good open source alternative to Grammerly? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want a heuristic grammar checker, but obviously don't want to use Grammerly. Is there an open source alternative that can compete in the depth of corrections provided, and preferably does its processing locally, which Grammerly doesn't?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

I used LanguageTool for a while with firefox. First, I tested it by running a service locally, but I noticed that with time it used more and more RAM and I had to restart once in a while. But then I moved it to the cheapest instance on DigitalOcean, and it's running fine so far. I'm assuming it's the Java garbage collector that just didn't bother to clean up if it had more RAM available. Not sure, maybe it can be configured but I didn't look into it.

Other than that, I pretty much liked it. It's pretty easy to self-host, and you can also use it in google docs documents if you use that.