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rkomar · 06-25-2013, 01:04 PM

There are a few older threads here on dictionaries, and it's worth searching for them and reading them since they are full of information.

Converting a dictionary to PocketBook format has many requirements and steps. Besides the actual data to convert in a suitable format, you need the collates.txt, keyboard.txt and morphems.txt files for German. If you can find another PB-format German->XXXX dictionary, then maybe you can copy the files from that (although I'm not sure how to get that data out of the dictionary). I can't remember, but someone may have already provided those files in one of the old threads here. You can use an empty morphems.txt file, but it would be much better to have a proper one. It contains the rules for mapping words to the form they are stored in within the dictionary (e.g. hits->hit, barked->bark, striking->strike,...), and makes the coverage much better when using it. The program that does the final conversion to PB format runs on Windows only. I can't remember if it runs under Wine on Linux, but I guess you can try it to see.

Or, you can go to the Obreey store and buy a Lingvo German->Polish dictionary in PocketBook format there. The price seems pretty reasonable (US$10.49), and you could avoid all this work.

06-25-2013, 01:04 PM	#2
rkomar Wizard Posts: 2,985 Karma: 18343081 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada Device: PRS-505, PB 902, PRS-T1, PB 623, PB 840, PB 633	There are a few older threads here on dictionaries, and it's worth searching for them and reading them since they are full of information. Converting a dictionary to PocketBook format has many requirements and steps. Besides the actual data to convert in a suitable format, you need the collates.txt, keyboard.txt and morphems.txt files for German. If you can find another PB-format German->XXXX dictionary, then maybe you can copy the files from that (although I'm not sure how to get that data out of the dictionary). I can't remember, but someone may have already provided those files in one of the old threads here. You can use an empty morphems.txt file, but it would be much better to have a proper one. It contains the rules for mapping words to the form they are stored in within the dictionary (e.g. hits->hit, barked->bark, striking->strike,...), and makes the coverage much better when using it. The program that does the final conversion to PB format runs on Windows only. I can't remember if it runs under Wine on Linux, but I guess you can try it to see. Or, you can go to the Obreey store and buy a Lingvo German->Polish dictionary in PocketBook format there. The price seems pretty reasonable (US$10.49), and you could avoid all this work.