Multitran for Linux

Open platform for professional translators

Multitran dictionary has a 15-year history. It began as an Academy of Sciences project in the 80s, suffered near collapse in the early 90s, slowly revitalized by 2000 and finally made a miraclous comeback when www.multitran.ru was registered on April 1, 2001 The site currently serves 15.000 users and over 300.000 requests per day.

Multitran currently supports Windows, Web, Wap and Pocket PC. Move to Linux platform was predictable for Multitran due to the free status of its online version. Nearly thousand users contribute new terms to the dictionary. Now the source code of the project is open for the Linux community. Linux version is located here.

Multitran automatic dictionary offers English-Russian and Russian-English alphabetic, morphologic a
nd phrase searches. Multitran automaticaly recognizes words in all forms, current version includes over 1.000.000 articles for English-Russian-English dictionary.

Project consists of library (libmt), different frontends and dictionary database itself.
Library core engine (in order to build):

libmtsupport - basic usefull functions
libbtree - library for reading Multitran's BTREE database format
libfacet - enchanced locale facets
libmtquery - main engine to query translations
mt-utils - simple command line utilities for dictionary maintainance

All core libraries are ready both for Unix and Win32 platforms. You can download latest version here.
Dictionary:

multitran-data - English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary

You can download latest version here.
Frontends:

qmtcc - Qt-based graphical frontend for Multitran dictionary

See screenshot here. You can download latest version here.

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