Dictionary ENG-GER with data by dict.cc

p4cx · 01-09-2021, 04:27 AM

Hello,

a few years ago I bought a Pocketbook Touch HD 3 e-book reader and found it had a lousy standard dictionary. As a non-native speaker, I enjoy reading English books, so I occasionally need a translation of a word. The standard dictionaries on this device only provide basic vocabulary and therefore do not help me any further. Because of this problem, I looked around a little and only found expensive dictionaries that weren't big enough for my taste.
Therefore I wrote a small program to parse the data from dict.cc into the xdxf format, ready for the converter (which I got from this forum, thanks) to load these into the binary dic format by pocketbook. If you are wondering: My script only picks the translation of the words, no explanations or grammatical informations. I think, that another languages won't work with my tool - it has to be customized for it.

https://github.com/p4cx/pocketbook_dic

Please check it out. I am open for criticism and improvements. If you want, feel free to contribute to my repo. If you need help, feel free to ask.

Markismus · 01-10-2021, 01:04 PM

Nice!
You can combine it with the dictionary script from this thread. In case you would like to convert mobi-, Stardict- and csv-format to Pocketbook dic-format, too.

Looking at your code dict.cc is a csv-format with tab as separation symbol?

p4cx · 01-10-2021, 05:12 PM

Ah, I already found it on github and starred it. But I didn't had the time to investigate this further. But I will, it's looking really promising.

Yeah, the format of dict.cc is a textfile with all entries in own lines, seperated with tabs. Quite easy to parse, it would even be possible to write a beautiful xdxf file with grammatical informations, etc.. But I don't like this kind of stuff while reading and translating words. Therefore I got rid of all that stuff.

But it shouldn't be that complicated to rewrite it with variable options and use your script for generating the dic file (so I don't have to use my Windows VM for the generator, yey

)

Markismus · 01-11-2021, 03:07 AM

I used a command line approach using wine: wine convert.exe etc.etc.
So without using my script, you can already get rid of the VM.

p4cx · 01-11-2021, 04:14 AM

Yeah, i already tried that - won't work on my system. But there are some tools, I need Windows for, therefore the VM isn't that much a problem.
But I always prefer a Linux/Mac only solution.

01-09-2021, 04:27 AM	#1
p4cx Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 794 Join Date: Jan 2021 Location: Germany Device: Pocketbook Touch HD 3	Dictionary ENG-GER with data by dict.cc Hello, a few years ago I bought a Pocketbook Touch HD 3 e-book reader and found it had a lousy standard dictionary. As a non-native speaker, I enjoy reading English books, so I occasionally need a translation of a word. The standard dictionaries on this device only provide basic vocabulary and therefore do not help me any further. Because of this problem, I looked around a little and only found expensive dictionaries that weren't big enough for my taste. Therefore I wrote a small program to parse the data from dict.cc into the xdxf format, ready for the converter (which I got from this forum, thanks) to load these into the binary dic format by pocketbook. If you are wondering: My script only picks the translation of the words, no explanations or grammatical informations. I think, that another languages won't work with my tool - it has to be customized for it. https://github.com/p4cx/pocketbook_dic Please check it out. I am open for criticism and improvements. If you want, feel free to contribute to my repo. If you need help, feel free to ask.

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01-10-2021, 01:04 PM	#2
Markismus Guru Posts: 955 Karma: 149907 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Rotterdam Device: HiSenseA5ProCC, Cracked OnyxNotePro, Note5, Kobo Glo, Aura	Nice! You can combine it with the dictionary script from this thread. In case you would like to convert mobi-, Stardict- and csv-format to Pocketbook dic-format, too. Looking at your code dict.cc is a csv-format with tab as separation symbol?

01-10-2021, 05:12 PM	#3
p4cx Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 794 Join Date: Jan 2021 Location: Germany Device: Pocketbook Touch HD 3	Ah, I already found it on github and starred it. But I didn't had the time to investigate this further. But I will, it's looking really promising. Yeah, the format of dict.cc is a textfile with all entries in own lines, seperated with tabs. Quite easy to parse, it would even be possible to write a beautiful xdxf file with grammatical informations, etc.. But I don't like this kind of stuff while reading and translating words. Therefore I got rid of all that stuff. But it shouldn't be that complicated to rewrite it with variable options and use your script for generating the dic file (so I don't have to use my Windows VM for the generator, yey )

01-11-2021, 03:07 AM	#4
Markismus Guru Posts: 955 Karma: 149907 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Rotterdam Device: HiSenseA5ProCC, Cracked OnyxNotePro, Note5, Kobo Glo, Aura	I used a command line approach using wine: wine convert.exe etc.etc. So without using my script, you can already get rid of the VM.

01-11-2021, 04:14 AM	#5
p4cx Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 794 Join Date: Jan 2021 Location: Germany Device: Pocketbook Touch HD 3	Yeah, i already tried that - won't work on my system. But there are some tools, I need Windows for, therefore the VM isn't that much a problem. But I always prefer a Linux/Mac only solution.

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