Twenty years old decision to make Hascheck an online service has shown to bring significant benefits not only in
the present but also for the future. Although one may think that online spellchecking is an auxiliary form of the
service, the immense amount of data needed to become able to offer serious computational proofreading,
comparable to human proofreading, points to cloud computing as a very probable future form of offering the
service. Something similar should happen with other data-driven NLP applications, including machine translation,
especially in the case of real-time speech-to-speech translation services. Because of the approach described in this
paper, characterized by high engineering efficiency in using manpower and other resources, the Croatian language