Review on Ginger Grammar/Spell Checker http://www.gingersoftware.com/

http://www.gingersoftware.com/


I saw this nice little software in CSUN disability conference in San Diego. I was sufficiently impressed by the demonstration that as soon as I got back to Riverside, I purchased a copy of my own and ran it on a 96 page document. (The novel I happen to be working on.)

Let us just say, it is a vast improvement over traditional grammar/spelling checkers and for $70.00, it is an affordable vast improvement. However, as any English lover would tell you, English, being an analytical language, is notorious for its grammatical exceptions and prepositional oddities; which means, the vast improvement on traditional grammar checkers still requires human tweaking here and there. So don't expect miraculous magic, the 96 page document still took a little less than three hours.

Furthermore, its heavy dependence on the Internet Server means it may not function properly without an Internet connection; it also means it will be a hard sale trying to convince the I.T department that sees it as a security vulnerability.

Other than that, I think the software has much potential, and who knows, maybe in the near future, it will even correct my subject-verb agreement, dangling participles, and split infinitives. So being not too paranoid about Online Security, I consider my $70 well spent.

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