Easy integration with your app

Simple, two-step operation: 1) Set the Text property with the text you want to check; 2) Call the Start method. Properties have reasonable defaults, so you need only set the ones you'd like to change Adding a spell checker to your Visual Basic or MFC application has never been easier!

Background spell checking

ActiveX Speller can monitor rich-text controls and detect spelling errors as the user types, just like the "as-you-type" spell checking feature in word processors.

Spell-check Web page forms in Internet Explorer

ActiveX Speller can check the spelling of text entered in Web page forms viewed with Internet Explorer. The ActiveX Speller control is digitally signed and has been marked "safe for scripting" and "safe for initialization".

Excellent documentation

Programmer's guide describes how properties, methods, and events work together to fulfill common spell check requirements

Flexible

ActiveX Speller includes over 50 properties, over 20 methods, and 10 events, giving it the flexibility needed to meet any application's spell check requirements. Spell check text of any size from a single word to an entire book. Click here to find out more.

User interface options

Use our built-in spell check dialog box, write your own user interface, or check spelling without a user interface

Text source flexibility

Spell check text strings, text boxes, and rich-text boxes, including CEdit, CRichEdit, TextBox, and RichTextBox

Editable user dictionaries

Edit user dictionaries through our built-in dialog box or your own dialog box.

Undo support

Undo previous user corrections by calling a single method.

User options

Set common spell check options through our built-in dialog box or your own dialog box

Specialty dictionaries

Spellex is the leading developer of specialty dictionaries for the healthcare, legal, and scientific professions.  Fully integrate your English dictionary with the most comprehensive specialty dictionaries designed for the medical, legal, pharmaceutical, dental, bioscience, and scientific professions.

Frequent updates

If you or your client requires a leading edge, up-to-date dictionary for medical terms, a Spell-X-Plus subscription is just the cure. This one of a kind subscription service will keep your dictionary updated and allow you to keep pace with the latest words in medicine.

Multiple dictionaries

Supports multiple main and user-dictionary files

User dictionaries

Add words to user dictionaries at run time. Can use user dictionaries from most other applications, including Word

Network support

Main dictionaries can be stored on a common file server for network-based applications

Misspelled word handling

Supports "ignore all" and "replace all" misspelled-word handling

Intelligent suggestions

Offers intelligent suggestions for misspelled words using typographical (looks like) matching, phonetic (sounds like) matching, or both

Auto correct

Automatically or conditionally corrects common misspellings (e.g., automatically replace recieve with receive). Dictionary containing hundreds of common English misspellings and correct replacements is included

Abbreviation expansion

Automatically or conditionally expand simple abbreviations (e.g., automatically replace MS with Microsoft)

Doubled-word detection

Optionally detects doubled words (e.g., Paris in the the spring)

Amazing speed

Spell checks over 14,000 words per second on average hardware.

Accented characters

Supports the full ANSI character set, including accented characters.

Dictionaries included

Comes with 115,000-word American English and 120,000-word UK English main dictionaries

Multilingual

Dictionaries in several European languages, plus medical and legal supplements to the English dictionaries, are available.

Case sensitive

Reports america as a capitalization error and offers America as a replacement

Royalty free

No royalties or runtime fees to pay. No copy counting required.

Friendly licensing

No obtrusive product logos or branding requirements — a simple copyright statement is all that's needed

Support

Free unlimited technical support via e-mail.