A generic tutorial for how to convert different dictionaries for PocketBook electronic readers
So I apologise in advance if it did not work for you, but it has worked for me 13.11.2021
All actions were performed on Linux, however this guide should probably work for Windows too.
- Readiness for failure and the ability to read error messages
- Python3 and Python2 installed, and also a python-tk package
- Wine if you use linux
- pyglossary Universal tool for dictionary conversion, however, does not work with all formats, make sure yours is supported for read
- linguae tool, .deb package did not work for me, but you can run a cross-platform python2 version (third link)
- DictionaryConverter new version, old version. Do not be frightened that it is .exe, it works just fine with wine. (I used the new one but i'll leave old one too just in case)
- The dictionary that you want to convert in any appropriate format
- You should make an empty dict.ifo file somewhere, you will need it in just a second.
- Go to the pyglossary directory and run
python3 main.py. It will launch a GTK3 interface. - Select your dictionary as an input file and dictionary.ifo file as an output file
- After a while, the program will generate three files: dict.ifo, dict.dic and dict.idx (you won't need the last one so it is ok if it is missing) DO NOT CLOSE THE PROGRAM UNTIL IT WILL PRINT CONVERSION TIME, EVEN IF IT IS NOT RESPONDING
- Then you can close pyglossary
- Go to linguae directory and run
python2 linguae.pyw - It will launch a Tkinter GUI which will hang for a while, but then respond.
- Open your dict.ifo file, it will againg hang for a while
- After that you can edit a dictionary properties (second button)
- Now press export (the third button), choose XDXF format, and choose an output path <path> and an output name <dictname>. Also you can check "export without tabs" because pocketbook does not support it
- After an end of the process, you can close a program, your dict.xdxf will be located at <path>/<dictname>
- Take your dict.xdxf and copy it to the DictionaryConverter directory
- There, assuming you dictionary language is english, run
wine converter.exe dict.xdxf eng(look for the other supported languages in the directory) - Your output dict.dic file will be your converted dictionary!
Its formating sucks but i did not understand how to fix it. Feel free to commit your ideas!
- This article which is basically what i've wrote but less clear imo
- pyglossary devs, thanking them for their work
- linguae dev, thanks for him too
- DictionaryConverter dev, don't even know who is he but thanks for him
- Yawipa developers, i took the parsed enwikitionary file from them, here is their paper that they've asked to cite:
Computational Etymology and Word Emergence
Wu, Winston and Yarowsky, David
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
may 2020
Marseille, France
European Language Resources Association
Finally, sorry for the bad english, i am russian. Hope yoou've found that helpful!