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The company Software Concepts, Inc was on of the first to create a patented software program which was capable of verifying spelling. The software became famous through its use by big word-processing companies such as Lanier, Philips, and Xerox.

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The first spell checker was developed by Ralph Gorin in the early 1970s at the Stanford Research Institute. It was used to proofread text automatically for typographical errors.

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What was the first program to have a spell checker?

While there were attempts to create automated spell checkers as early as 1957, the first functional spell checker was created in February 1971 by Ralph Gorin, a Stanford graduate student. The spell checker was installed on a DEC PDP-10, located in Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence lab. The first patent to use a spell checker with a computer software program was issued to Software Concepts, Inc. in 1978. It is not clear which was the first application to use the spell checker, but photo-typesetting programs from Lanier, Philips, and Xerox included a spell checker.


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Why doesn't WikiAnswers have a spell checker?

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