Finnish Spellcheck
approvedby Anto Keinänen
Spellchecker for the Finnish language using Voikko. / Oikolukija suomenkielellä, joka hyödyntää Voikkoa.
Finnish Spellcheck for Obsidian
Ohjeet ovat myös käännetty suomenkielelle. Voit lukea ne täältä.
Sadly we currently only support the computer version of obsidian.

The Finnish Spellcheck for Obsidian is a plugin for obsidian that integrates advanced spellchecking and grammatical analysis into your Obsidian editor. It utilizes Voikko, a tool for Finnish language that includes morphological analysis, spelling, grammar checking, hyphenation, and other linguistic data.
Installation
The plugin can be installed from the obsidian community plugins page.
Manual Installation
- Download the latest
main.js,styles.css, andmanifest.jsonfiles from the releases page. - Copy these files to the following directory in your Obsidian vault:
{vault path}/.obsidian/plugins/finnish-spellcheck/. - In some cases, you may need to download libvoikko. Instructions for downloading libvoikko can be found here: Windows, Apple, and for Linux, most package repositories should have libvoikko available.
Usage
Once installed, this plugin adds a command panel entry called "Spellcheck" that can be accessed by pressing Ctrl+P. Additionally, you can run the spellcheck by clicking the "Aa" button in the bottom right corner.
Contributing
Contributions to this plugin are welcome and appreciated. Please ensure that any contributions follow the codebase's conventions, use the Angular style for commit messages and format the code with npm run format.
Building from Source
To build the plugin from source, follow these steps:
- Clone and build
libvoikko-jsfrom https://github.com/niilo/libvoikko-js using the provided Dockerfile. - Move
libvoikko-morpho.jsandlibvoikko-morpho.d.tstosrc/voikkoin this repository. - Build with:
npm run build.
License
This repository is under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. For more information please read the license file.
Acknowledgements
This plugin heavily relies on the following open-source projects and I would like to thank their authors and maintainers:
- Obsidian LanguageTool Plugin by Clemens-E (licensed under AGPL-3.0)
- libvoikko (website: https://voikko.puimula.org) (licensed under GPL-3.0)
- libvoikko-js by Niilo Ursin (licensed under GPL-3.0)
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