Desousak / SpellDestroyer

A script for purposely messing up text - like the opposite of a spell checker.

Spell Destroyer

A script for purposely messing up text - like the opposite of a spell checker.

How it works:

Three techniques are used to mess up your inputted text:

1. Words are replaced with their common spelling mistakes (generated from this corpora, found in ./misspelled)
2. Random letters within a word are capitalized
3. Spaces are generated randomly in the middle of, and in-between, words

Each of the above can be commented out to turn on/off a technique. Probabilities can also be changed to mess up the text more, or less.

How to use:

1. Place your text within a input.txt file, placed within the root directory of this project
2. Tweak spelld.py to fit your needs
3. Run spelld.py
4. Get the messed up text within the output.txt file

Todo:

1. Rework each technique so that they can all be done in a single pass
2. Implement a smarter algorithm for generating spelling mistakes (maybe use an additional corpora?)
3. Flesh out the text filter to normalize inputted text