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Recommendations for best monolingual proofreading/editing program?
Thread poster: Michael Kelly
Michael Kelly
Michael Kelly  Identity Verified
France
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May 14

Dear Colleagues,
I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation as to the best program to use for monolingual proofreading?

Mainly this is for academic texts written in English by non-native speakers, which I get to proofread/edit.
Since there are often a lot of diagrams etc., ideally I don't want something where you have to copy text into some window, but something where you can upload a Word document and get a revised Word document as the output.
Does anyone kno... See more
Dear Colleagues,
I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation as to the best program to use for monolingual proofreading?

Mainly this is for academic texts written in English by non-native speakers, which I get to proofread/edit.
Since there are often a lot of diagrams etc., ideally I don't want something where you have to copy text into some window, but something where you can upload a Word document and get a revised Word document as the output.
Does anyone know anything that could fit the bill and produces good results? It doesn't have to be completely free.

(I would then probably do a document comparison and fine-tune the result. But since the non-native speakers make a lot of mistakes, at the moment there is a lot of spadework to do before the fine-tuning can happen. Hence I was wondering what the best tool is to lighten the load in that respect.)

Many thanks in advance for your recommendations,
Michael ▲ Collapse
 
Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
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Two tools May 15

PerfectIt and Draftsmith are two add-ons for Word that checks files.

https://draftsmith.ai
https://www.perfectit.com

Christine Andersen
 
Michael Kelly
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Thanks! May 15

Samuel, that is very helpful.
Thanks very much!
Kind regards,
Michael
 
Agneta Pallinder
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Welcome back, PerfectIt! May 15

Many thanks to Samuel for enabling me to get PerfectIt back! I used to have it and then lost it in some Microsoft update. Very handy tool.
 


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