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GitHub - gardner/LocalLanguageTool: Self-hosted LanguageTool private instance is an offline alternative to Grammarly (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by gardner@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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! 🔮

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[-] RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago

Hi, this look great ! But what's the difference with https://github.com/sonnyp/Eloquent/ ?

[-] sznowicki@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

But why use many word when few do trick?

[-] gardner@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

“I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.” ― Mark Twain

[-] gardner@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

Isn't the issue with the different selfhosted variants that the official version has more language rules available?

[-] mac@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It seems to be some kind of AI that polishes your writing style, helps change tone of the text etc.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Please tell me it can spell better than grammarly. That website REALLY shows its roots.

[-] sk@utsukta.org 0 points 1 year ago

any idea about the system requirements?

[-] gardner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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

Er... maybe I am misunderstanding your post but this community is literally built around hosting your own local infrastructure.

[-] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this community is literally built around hosting your own local infrastructure.

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 points 1 year ago

Offline as in, the server software doesn't require the internet.

[-] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 points 1 year ago

Yeah offline means off cloud at this point

[-] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

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.

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