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PyGlossary

PyGlossary

Working on glossarys (dictionary databases) using python. Including editing glossarys and converting theme between many formats. The support matrix is,

Format	Extension	Read	Write
ABBYY Lingvo DSL	.dsl	X
AppleDict Source	.xml		X
Babylon	.bgl	X
Babylon Source	.gls		X
DictionaryForMIDs			X
DICTD dictionary server	.index	X	X
FreeDict	.tei		X
Gettext Source	.po	X	X
SQLite	MDic .m2 Sib .sdb	X	X
Octopus MDic	.mdx	X
Octopus MDic Source	.txt	X	X
Omnidic		X	X
PMD		X	X
Sdictionary Binary	.dct	X
Sdictionary Source	.sdct		X
SQL			X
StarDict	.ifo	X	X
Tabfile	.txt, .dic	X	X
TreeDict			X
XDXF	.xdxf	X
xFarDic	.xdb	X	X

Requirements

Mac OS X

• BeautifulSoup4 required to sanitize html contents.

  sudo easy_install beautifulsoup4

• GNU make as part of Command Line Tools for Xcode.

• Dictionary Development Kit as part of Auxillary Tools for Xcode. Extract to /Developer/Extras/Dictionary Development Kit

HOWTOs

Convert Babylon (bgl) to Mac OS X dictionary

Let's assume the Babylon dict is at ~/Documents/Duden_Synonym/Duden_Synonym.BGL:

cd ~/Documents/Duden_Synonym/
~/Software/pyglossary/pyglossary.pyw --read-options=resPath=OtherResources --write-format=AppleDict Duden_Synonym.BGL Duden_Synonym.xml
make
make install

Launch Dictionary.app and test.

Convert Octopus Mdict to Mac OS X dictionary

Let's assume the MDict dict is at ~/Documents/Duden-Oxford/Duden-Oxford DEED ver.20110408.mdx.

• Use GetDict to extract Mdict dictionary (.mdx). Choose "UTF-8 TXT" output format and Duden-Oxford DEED ver.20110408.mtxt output file name.

• Run the following command:

  cd ~/Documents/Duden-Oxford/
  ~/Software/pyglossary/pyglossary.pyw "Duden-Oxford DEED ver.20110408.mtxt" "Duden-Oxford DEED ver.20110408.xml"
  make
  make install
  

Launch Dictionary.app and test.

Convert Octopus Mdict to Mac OS X dictionary

Let's assume the MDict dict is at ~/Downloads/oald8/oald8.mdx, along with the image/audio resources file oald8.mdd.

Run the following commands:

cd ~/Downloads/oald8/
~/Software/pyglossary/pyglossary.pyw --read-options=resPath=OtherResources --write-format=AppleDict oald8.mdx oald8.xml

This extracts dictionary into oald8.xml and data resources into folder OtherResources. Hyperlinks use relative path.

sed -i "" 's:src="/:src=":g' oald8.xml

Convert audio file from SPX format to WAV format.

find OtherResources -name "*.spx" -execdir sh -c 'spx={};speexdec $spx  ${spx%.*}.wav' \;
sed -i "" 's|sound://\([/_a-zA-Z0-9]*\).spx|\1.wav|g' oald8.xml

Compile and install.

make
make install

Launch Dictionary.app and test.