Virastyar (Persian: ویراستیار, meaning "editing assistant") is a Persian add-in for Microsoft Word that performs Persian spell checking, character standardization, Pinglish transliteration, punctuation correction and calendar conversion.[2] It can conjugate approximately 46,000 simple verb tense, and use inflection and morphological rules to recognize possible extensions of a word.[3] It covers approximately 2,800 non-verbal inflections for nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, numerals, classifiers, and pronouns.[4]

Virastyar
Developer(s)Omid Kashefi[1]
Initial releaseFebruary 2, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-02-02)
Stable release
3.5 / August 15, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-08-15)[1]
Preview release
4.0 Beta / August 29, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-08-29)[1]
Written inC#, Visual Basic for Applications[1]
Operating systemWindows
PlatformMicrosoft Word, .NET Framework, Visual Studio Tools for Applications
Size59.1 MB[1]
Available inPersian
TypeSpell checker, plug-in
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitevirastyar.ir

Virastyar is mostly coded in Microsoft Visual C# using .NET Framework and is a free software, released under the GNU General Public License.[1]

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References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f Virastyar at sourceforge.net
  2. ^ What is Virastyar?
  3. ^ "Free Version of Persian Spell Checker is Released". MehrNews. May 11, 2010. Retrieved Feb 28, 2011.
  4. ^ Kashefi, Omid; Nasri, Mitra; Kanani, Kamiar; Senobari, Mehrdad; Iravanian, Sina; Dehlaghi-Ghadim, Alireza (2010). Towards Automatic Persian Spell Checker. Tehran, Iran: Supreme Council of ICT of Iran. ISBN 978-964-884-634-8.

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