### Author:  [@dchen](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dchen)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-simpleitk-code-spell-checking/5893/1 "2023-04-24T15:28:52Z")
Recently, I’ve been working on spell checking the headers in ITK’s code base. My goal has been to improve the ITK/SimpleITK documentation which gets pulled from the headers. I’m posting here just to memorialize my work, in case someone needs to do likewise.
Here’s the repo for the script I use to spell check ITK’s headers and example code:
> **[GitHub - dave3d/ITK-SpellCheck: Scripts to spell check ITK's headers](https://github.com/dave3d/ITK-SpellCheck)**
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> Scripts to spell check ITK's headers. Contribute to dave3d/ITK-SpellCheck development by creating an account on GitHub.
There’s a ‘setup’ script and the actually ‘spell’ script that does the work.
Within ‘spell’, it runs my original python script ‘codespell.py’ which comes from this repo:
> **[GitHub - SimpleITK/SimpleITKSpellChecking](https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITKSpellChecking)**
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> Contribute to SimpleITK/SimpleITKSpellChecking development by creating an account on GitHub.
For SimpleITK, we have a GitHub workflow that automatically runs spell checking on the code when a pull request is submitted. You can see that here:
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You can see from the ‘–suffix’ flag that we spell check C++ headers, Python files, markdown files, and reStructuredText file.
While SimpleITK’s checking is automatic, for ITK, I’ve just been running my script by hand.
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### Author:  [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-simpleitk-code-spell-checking/5893/2 "2023-04-24T16:57:34Z")
Are there any blockers for adding similar checks to ITK?
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### Author:  [@dchen](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dchen)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-simpleitk-code-spell-checking/5893/3 "2023-04-24T21:36:25Z")
Not that I know.
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### Author:  [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2023, 12:57pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-simpleitk-code-spell-checking/5893/4 "2023-04-25T12:57:50Z")
I implied: it would be good if you added them for ITK too 😃
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### Author:  [@dchen](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dchen)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-simpleitk-code-spell-checking/5893/5 "2023-04-25T13:01:02Z")
OK, I’ll have a look at it when I get the chance 🙂