Proofreading at the Speed of Sight: AI could Reinvent Visual Spellchecking

Even the most brilliant creative can get torpedoed by one rogue letter. A misspelled headline, a transposed product name, a flyer where “Mother’s Day” becomes “Mothers Day” with no apostrophe. That’s where intelligent image proofreading steps in.

Disclaimer – it is not 100% Accurate, unfortunately. Not yet anyway. But Dalle can spell now, so I am implementing it as a tool to help me catch mistakes. And at the speed ChatGPT/DALLE is improving I hope/expect it will be 100% accurate soon.

It isn’t just another spellchecker. It’s a visual intelligence system built for artists working in mixed-media formats. A proofreading ChatGPT system ingests the entire image and scans it holistically.

The engine underneath is a multi-pass OCR model trained to read stylized type. Whether you’re using grungy distressed fonts, hand-lettered scripts, or all-caps sans with negative spacing, it reads what the human eye would read. Then, it runs that text through a pure spelling validator. A hyper-focused check for words that don’t belong.

But here’s the real beauty: it respects design intent. If you’ve chosen to write “gurl” or “luv” intentionally, it doesn’t fight you. What it does flag are accidental letter swaps, missing characters, or subtle but critical typos that can cost you trust and reprints.

The output? A clean, intuitive report: each error quoted exactly as it appears in the image, with a correction beside it. Just clarity.

This is more than automation, it’s a collaborative tool for creatives who want to move fast without sacrificing accuracy. It fits right into a workflow, catching the slips that sneak through after too many last-minute changes.

Here is the instruction statement in my PROOFREADER ChatGPT Project: “If any errors are found, identify them and suggest corrected versions. Maintain the original tone and layout intent where possible. Focus on identifying spelling errors, including transposed letters, missing or extra characters, and incorrect word forms.Ignore grammar, punctuation, layout, and design elements unless they directly affect correct spelling. Report each spelling error clearly by quoting the incorrect word or phrase and providing the correct version.”

Create a new Project and add this as instructions (or your own), and start Proofreading at the Speed of Sight!