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Convert Myspell (Hunspell) to Ispell

06. June 2007 by Dmitry Dulepov
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While working on a project, I had to search for Latvian Ispell dictionaries. There were none found but there are Aspell (successor of Ispell) and MySpell (OpenOffice format) dictionaries. Formats of Ispell and MySpell is very different and some sources suggest that it will be hard to convert. However I was lucky to find that tsearch2 team made an utility to greatly simplify this conversion. Using it, I was able to get Ispell dictionaries in a minute. Utility is a Makefile, which requires make, unzip and perl to be on your system. It takes two arguments: ZIPFILE is the name of the zip file with MySpell dictionary and affix and LANGUAGE is the base name of the output files. The result is dictionary and affix files in Ispell format.

Great, isn't it? Saved me many hours of manual conversion and studying of these formats. Thanks, t3spell team!

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3 Comments

  1. on Tuesday, 26-06-07 10:51 Rahul Dewan
    Dmitry,

    Thanks for your response to my post on the English list. Was just browsing through, you blog and noticed Aspell.

    We've done some work on Aspell using Mono.NET. Check our website's home page. You may find it interesting.

    Thanks,
    Rahul
  2. on Tuesday, 26-06-07 12:50 Dmitry
    I have to use Ispell... It is for a new search engine, it recognizes only Ispell format.
  3. on Friday, 15-02-08 14:46 Rego
    Hi Dmitry,

    I'm trying to use tsearch2 to generates a dictionary from a myspell galician dictionary.

    I've read "my2ispell/README" and I've got the files: "galician.aff" and "galician.dict".

    But I don't know where I have to put these files to use its into ispell.
    I think that maybe I have to put "galician.aff" in "/usr/lib/ispell/" however I don't have any idea for "galician.dict".

    Best regards,
    Rego

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