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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?
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
which petered out after a few exchanges.
(function () {
const props = app.spellPreferences.properties;
const spellWindo
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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.
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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.
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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
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'),
});
}());
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Awesome! Thank you so much, Peter, for the prompt response and for all your awesome scripts and shared knowledge!
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great! Thanks. If it added the associated page number, it would be perfect....
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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);
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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.