languagetool

## LanguageTool

**LanguageTool** is open-source proofreading software for English, Spanish, French, German,
Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, and [more than 20 other languages](https://languagetool.org/languages/).
It finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect.

* [LanguageTool Forum](https://forum.languagetool.org)

* [How to run your own LanguageTool server](https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server)

* [HTTP API documentation](https://languagetool.org/http-api/swagger-ui/#!/default/post_check)

* [How to use our public server via HTTP](https://dev.languagetool.org/public-http-api)

* [How to use LanguageTool from Java](https://dev.languagetool.org/java-api) ([Javadoc](https://languagetool.org/development/api/index.html?org/languagetool/JLanguageTool.html))

For more information, please see our homepage, at [`languagetool.org`](https://languagetool.org),
[this `README`](https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/blob/master/languagetool-standalone/README.md),
and [`CHANGES`](https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/blob/master/languagetool-standalone/CHANGES.md).

The LanguageTool core (this repo) is freely available under the LGPL 2.1 or later.

## Docker

Try one of the following projects for a community-contributed Docker file:

`github.com`                                                                      | `hub.docker.com/r`
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[`meyayl/docker-languagetool`](https://github.com/meyayl/docker-languagetool)     | [`meyay/languagetool`](https://hub.docker.com/r/meyay/languagetool)
[`Erikvl87/docker-languagetool`](https://github.com/Erikvl87/docker-languagetool) | [`erikvl87/languagetool`](https://hub.docker.com/r/erikvl87/languagetool)
[`silvio/docker-languagetool`](https://github.com/silvio/docker-languagetool)     | [`silviof/docker-languagetool`](https://hub.docker.com/r/silviof/docker-languagetool)

## Contributions

[The development overview](https://dev.languagetool.org/development-overview) describes
how you can contribute error detection rules.

For more technical details, see [our dev pages](https://dev.languagetool.org).

## Scripted installation and building

To install or build using a script, simply type:

```sh
#!/usr/bin/env sh
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/languagetool-org/languagetool/master/install.sh | sudo bash $options
```

If you wish to have more options, download the `install.sh` script. Usage options follow:

<blockquote>

```HTML
sudo bash install.sh <options>

Usage: install.sh <option> <package>
Options:
   -h --help                   Show help
   -b --build                  Builds packages from the bleeding edge development copy of LanguageTool
   -c --command <command>      Specifies post-installation command to run (default gui when screen is detected)
   -q --quiet                  Shut up LanguageTool install