Overleaf textarea

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This plugin displays your text in a textarea so you can use spellcheck plugins like Grammarly.

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Description from store Spellcheck in Overleaf is very basic. It is nothing compared to dedicated tools such as Grammarly. I used to copy and paste into Docs back and forward until recently. I created this chrome extension that copies the content of the file visible in the editor; filters the commands/keywords and pastes the plain text in a textarea (Right area). This textarea is displayed over the pdf preview. Extensions such as Grammarly can't check complex editors such as Overleaf, but only work in textareas. Changes made to the textarea, either by extensions such as Grammarly or yourself, are evaluated and changes are merged back to the editor.

Latest reviews

(2023-11-07) Ye Shi: It seems the plugin is broken. Please fix it.
(2023-02-23) Konstantinos Thomas: Looked like exactly what I needed but after installing it, the pdf part of the page is just a blank page with a cursor blinking. Some Overleaf update probably broke the plugin.
(2022-10-16) Michael Stanley: Very useful plugin, but the underlining will gradually become further and further down the page from the word the suggestions are targeting. This makes it hard to use on large documents.
(2022-09-26) Oner Yigit: It has been a great extension. However, it seems there are some problems with the extension. It does not work anymore.
(2022-07-20) joycelyn Longdon: This was so useful! A godsend.
(2022-06-08) Ali M: Great Idea and I love it
(2022-05-19) Federico Cunico: Great plugin, really a game changer in overleaf. There are still some bugs like CTRL+Z sometimes not working in the plugin's text-area, problems with some LaTeX command which if removed displays errors, etc... But overall a great tool, highly recommended
(2022-04-26) Kinox Klark: This is exactly what I was needing. Thanks!
(2022-04-20) Zhe Chen: Great app for grammar checking in Overleaf. But the extension keeps crashing in Chrome, which is quite annoying.
(2022-04-09) James Chen: It worked before, but since the recent maintenance, the pdf appeared above the richtext that can check spealings.
(2022-04-08) Laust Dixen Munck: Doesn't work correctly for me. It seems like it displays the text under the pdf viewer and not over.
(2022-03-31) mick dam: I found on an old StackExchange that Robin Dijkhof was working on this. This is amazing for a dyslexic:). Cheers from Delft
(2022-03-16) Johannes Schneider: It is very unreliable for both Chrome and Firefox. Often the wrong words are marked and changes can screw up entire sentences. It would be such a useful extension, but overall trying it was a waste of time.
(2022-03-02) Matthew Herald: Perfect
(2022-01-19) Mascha Mura: Thank you so much
(2021-11-29) Jaap: Some of the LaTeX commands aren't filtered out, which sometimes confuses Grammarly. Overall a great extension, saves me a lot of time!
(2021-11-25) Marten Wintermans: This extension will save you a lot of time!
(2021-11-16) Ricardo Ezequiel: Everything we need for correcting latex projects. Thank you so much for your work!
(2021-11-02) Guilherme Lindner: Smart solution, great plugin!
(2021-09-20) Chongchong He: Absolutely love it! Works as expected.
(2021-09-13) Denis Shleifman: I usually never write reviews, but this extension is a life saver. I have spent so much time copying my latex code into word removing commands and then copying into Grammarly and then having to cross-compare. Which is tedious work at best, and at worst lead to additional mistakes. This plugin is amazing. 10/10, would recommend.
(2021-08-26) karim belaid: This is what I was looking for, since years ! If you could also include wordtune.com that would be amazing
(2021-07-28) Chao Wu: Wonderful work for the community. This really helps people like me without English as native language.
(2021-07-14) Elia Grego: Amazing... I are using also for write these comment!!!!! Thank mate :) (I was joking of course, you made an excellent tool, congrats)
(2021-07-13) Yusuf Said CANBAZ: it is little buggy in big projects with multiple files but I think it deserves 5 stars
(2021-07-02) Sheng Yue: Fantastic tool! Thanks so much!
(2021-06-23) Chandragupta: my professor told me there is lot of grammer mistake in my thesis. Thanks to this extension, it saved me
(2021-06-23) Florr: Awesome extension. I needed to switch it off an on again to get back to the pdf view for some reason but other than that it works flawlessly
(2021-06-21) Kishore S. Shenoy: Works nicely!
(2021-05-22) Carl Terve: It is perfect, saved me many hours of work!
(2021-05-12) Daniel Dolejška: Hacky, yet amazing extension — just what I needed! Thank you <3
(2021-05-12) Egemen Ertuğrul: Great plugin, just what I needed!
(2021-04-19) Eric Wiener: This is super helpful! Thank you! Also a heads up - you may need to refresh Overleaf when you first install this extension and go back to an existing Overleaf tab.
(2021-04-14) Andree Hultgren: Works great! The custom filters are pure genius!
(2021-04-06) Tim Pote: Wow, just awesome. For the longest time I've just been grumbling about how bad the Overleaf spell check is and that I can't use Grammarly...how wrong I was. This is great, does what is intended!
(2021-04-01) Léolo Gonay: Amazing ! Does the job, and I cant tell you I needed someone to do the job after nights and nights working on my thesis... Thanks !!
(2021-03-22) Chris Teo: Overall, a fantastic extension. However, it is a little buggy around citations and scientific notations where certain words/sentences go missing.
(2021-03-20) R Chang: This is so awesome! it works smoothly
(2021-03-18) Joakim Skarding: Great plugin, does what it says. It's a bit rough around the edges. Some latex commands are not removed and other times the plugin removes too much. But that doesn't affect the original latex text itself so the impact is only positive. I do wish that when accepting a change just the word is updated rather than the whole line. If track changes is on, then a whole paragraph will be shown as edited when just one word was changed.
(2021-03-18) Diego Muñoz: I had been looking for something like this for a long time. Thank you!
(2021-03-17) Shirley Xue: It saved my life, thank you so much!
(2021-03-09) Con Ahumada: It works perfectly :D
(2021-03-04) Giovanni Pamparana: Please continue developing this plugin! It is just what wen need!!!!! I love it!
(2021-02-26) Jonathan Hanley: From a man with dyslexia trying to write an academic paper, I thank you!
(2021-02-26) Maolin Wang: Amazing!
(2021-02-25) Petter: Perfect.
(2021-02-16) Jan Kalbantner: Top :)
(2021-02-08) Gabriele Russo: it is fantastic!!! However, now, it is not working properly. Someone can give a feedback?
(2021-02-02) Federico Tartarini: Fantastic tool, it integrates perfectly with Overleaf.
(2021-02-01) Andreas Prein: This is amazing!

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