Script to extract a list of all spelling errors in a document?

[jorge-fenix]

Do you know of a script, utility or method to extract a list of all spelling errors, according to InDesign’s spellchecking engine, detected inside a document or a bunch of documents?

[Geоrge]

https://redokun.com/blog/indesign-spell-check#scripts-check-document-indesign

>> List of misspelled words. Theunis DeJong developed this script that creates a list of all the words in your document that don't exist in the InDesign dictionary.

[jorge-fenix]

Thank you, but both scripts in linked as "List of misspelled words" in that page don't do (nor claim to do if I read their description in the subsequent page they can be downloaded from) what the page says. They gather all words in a document—also the ones spelled correctly.

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

Here's a script that collects all words caught by the spell checker and places them in a new document.  It's a horrible thing, very slow, and  right up there in the top-10 of ugly solutions. But it works. It came out of a discussion a few years ago here

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/how-to-compare-a-word-with-indesign-user-dictionary-words/m-...

which petered out after a few exchanges.

(function () {
  
  const props = app.spellPreferences.properties;
  const spellWindow = app.menuActions.item ('$ID/Check Spelling...');
  
  var typos = [];
  var knownTypo = {};
  
  function record (typo) {
    if (!knownTypo[typo]) {
      knownTypo[typo] = true;
      typos.push (typo);
    }
  }

  // Begin ----------------------------------------------
  
  // Hide the layout window to speed things up
  app.windows[0].minimize();
  
  app.spellPreferences.properties = {
    checkCapitalizedSentences: false,
    checkCapitalizedWords: false,
    checkRepeatedWords: false,
    checkMisspelledWords: true
  }

  spellWindow.invoke();
  if (!app.selection.length) { // No spelling errors, nothing to do
    exit();
  }

  // If there's a typo, it's now selected
  record (app.selection[0].contents);
  
  var i = app.selection[0].index; // The location of the typo
  spellWindow.invoke();
  while (app.selection[0].index !== i) { // Stop when we catch the same word
    i = app.selection[0].index;
    record (app.selection[0].contents);
    spellWindow.invoke(); // Go to the next typo
  }
  app.selection = null;
  
  // Restore the layout window and the spell preferences
  app.activate();
  app.spellPreferences.properties = props;
  
  // Create a new document and add the typos.
  app.documents.add().textFrames.add ({
    geometricBounds: app.documents[0].pages[0].bounds,
    contents: typos.sort().join('\r'),
  });
  
}());

[jorge-fenix]

Awesome! Thank you so much, Peter, for the prompt response and for all your awesome scripts and shared knowledge!

[John D Herzog]

I am guessing all of the text is in textframes. If so, the page number should be available with app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.documentOffset. Unless I am misunderstanding the structure.

You need to add that to this line in whatever syntax you would like.

record (app.selection[0].contents);

Note that the documentOffset starts at 0 so it will be one less than the actual page number.

Maybe  something like this:

var page = parseInt(app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.documentOffset)+1;
record(app.selection[0].contents + ": " + page);

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@John D Herzog

There is a new thread: 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/can-someone-edit-this-script-so-it-includes-asso... 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

On a PC - probably on a Mac as well - if there is WORD installed - it might be quicker to copy text to WORD and perform spellchecking there? WORD returns collection of all spellcheck errors.