I made a repo, mostly so I could easily set this up on new machines. Basically, it's a self-hosted offline private version of Grammarly.
Go forth, and use good grammar! đź”®
GitHub - gardner/LocalLanguageTool: Self-hosted LanguageTool private instance is an offline alternative to Grammarly
https://github.com/gardner/LocalLanguageTool
20 Comments
RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 1y
Hi, this look great ! But what's the difference with https://github.com/sonnyp/Eloquent/ ?
sznowicki@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
Looks like it is an actual LanguageTool server so it uses all the clients from them. They have tons of integrations that help a lot.
Source: using 3 languages every day while one of them I’m still shit and need this tool to not look like an idiot with no grammar
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 12 pts · 1y
But why use many word when few do trick?
gardner@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
“I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.” ― Mark Twain
gardner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
That looks like a rad project with lots of thought and effort put into it. The author created a Gjs app to host LanguageTool inside which makes it much more user-friendly for people that don't have docker.
I took a much lazier approach by using docker and not really writing any code.
Mora@pawb.social · 6 pts · 1y
Isn't the issue with the different selfhosted variants that the official version has more language rules available?
mac@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y
Yeah I'm confused, isnt language tool also already open source? Nothing on the above repo explains the difference. Official language tool server can be found below
https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool
koala@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y
Running LanguageTool locally is a bit of a pain, with some manual steps. Plus you have to fetch some data files. You can find around a few projects like this one to make it easier to run LanguageTool.
And yes, as the poster mentioned, LanguageTool keeps some code exclusive to their paid version. There's a bit of a tension because they ask people not to extend OSS LanguageTool with their paid features.
There's also this interesting clone, but it seems abandoned.
Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
It's great that these tools exist. Thanks for sharing.
I use this which combines languagetools, libre translate and openwebui for your local AI needs
https://github.com/kWeglinski/OmniPoly
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Please tell me it can spell better than grammarly. That website REALLY shows its roots.
oldfart@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
It seems to be some kind of AI that polishes your writing style, helps change tone of the text etc.
sk@utsukta.org · 1 pts · 1y
any idea about the system requirements?
gardner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Looks like it wires 2 GB of RAM for the java process. I run it on a MacBook Air with 24 GB of RAM and I don't notice it.
notarobot@lemm.ee · -21 pts · 1y
Kind of offtopic: Can we call something offline if you need a server to run it?
Sure, you could run it on your own PC and that's it, but I don't think that method fit well with this community
splendoruranium@infosec.pub · 33 pts · 1y
Er... maybe I am misunderstanding your post but this community is literally built around hosting your own local infrastructure.
dan@upvote.au · 3 pts · 1y
That's part of it, but using a dedicated server, colocated server, or VPS are also considered "self hosted" too. "self hosted" is broader than just having a server at home, and means any server, web service, etc where you maintain it yourself.
Hardware in your own house is generally referred to as a "home lab".
ashley@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 1y
Offline as in, the server software doesn't require the internet.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 22 pts · 1y
Yes, you absolutely could do that. You can run it locally and access it on localhost:8010
Also, even if you have it on a server on the LAN, many people would consider LAN “offline”.
lordnikon@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Yeah offline means off cloud at this point
helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 1y
You can run it on your laptop. I do.
"Server" in this case refers to client-server architecture.
That said this community is about hosting things on a computer you own which can very much be online. But this one works offline too.