Introduction

LanguageTool is an Open Source proof­reading software for English, French, German, Polish, and more than 20 other languages.

You can use the LanguageTools with a firefox-plugin.

This is a Dockerfile to get the languagetools running on a system without java. It will also install ngram and fasttext for you inside the docker image.

The worker image will use [https://hub.docker.com/_/amazoncorretto]

Build and Usage

Check the enviroment variables and versions that will be uses:

make envout

To build the docker image run:

make build_docker

to get the NGRAM files use:

make build_ngram

To run the docker image, check the path where the ngams have been extracted to and alter the docker-compose.yaml

docker compose up 

If you would like to change the names / versions see:

Makefile.version

start

docker compose up -d

Development and test

ngram support

Ngram download and unzip is included in the docker make build. For testing you can change to a local server:

make local_server=1 <target>

see also the

Makefile.version

show build settings

make envout

switch ngram download server to local

make local_server=1 envout