How to convert .mobi dictionary to stardict?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by AnimalOfArt

I guess you won't be able to open the original azw file because they have DRM bound to my account. This is the purest mobi file I can give you. I took the azw from my kindle content folder, put it into calibre, and it immediately DeDRMed and converted it to mobi.

The .azw extension in your Kindle content folder will be the same no matter what the ebook format. Calibre does not convert the file, just gives it the correct extension based on the ebook format during the import.

[AnimalOfArt]

Oh okay, thank you.

Than it is the original Kindle file I send to you, @Markismus

[AnimalOfArt]

Ok I tried running the script on a Linux VPS and it worked there where it won't work on my windows machine. But for some reason I cannot install python on it for using kindleunpack, so I will use a vmware image of ubuntu and try it on my local machine.

I keep you updated!

[AnimalOfArt]

Ok I set up a Linux VM (Ubuntu 20) and packed everything in it python, perl, KindleUnpack and PocketbookDic. I put in a mobi file and it ran smoothly until converting to stardict

sh: 1: stardict-text2bin: not found

I guess I need the stardict library from somewhere right?

EDIT: Oh sorry, I see it is in the dependencies list


EDIT: I needed to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 because in later depositories there are no stardict packages

I installd stardict and stardict-tools but stardict-text2bin is still not found

What can I do now?

[Markismus]

I uploaded all dictionaries to the usual place.

The source files for stardict are on github.

The download files are hosted here.

You are not dependent on the install packages of Ubuntu. You may install your own files. If you find that some files are not longer distributed, you will never have to downgrade your distribution version!

[pascal jakobs]

Hello
I'm trying to convert "Oxford Hachette English - French Dictionar - Synapse Developpement.mobi"
I could go up to generating this files:
pascal@micht:~/PocketbookDic/dict/OxfordHachette/mobi7$ ls -l
total 264516
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 4266 févr. 16 22:27 content.opf
drwxrwxr-x 2 pascal pascal 4096 févr. 16 22:27 Images
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 24 févr. 17 09:23 OxfordHachette.hash
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 43984023 févr. 16 22:27 OxfordHachette.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 37360800 févr. 16 22:27 OxfordHachette.rawml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 33 févr. 17 09:24 OxfordHachette_reconstructed.css
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 5875294 févr. 16 22:32 OxfordHachette_reconstructed.dic
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 73 févr. 17 09:24 OxfordHachette_reconstructed.lua
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 44954294 févr. 17 09:24 OxfordHachette_reconstructed.xdxf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 49009538 févr. 17 09:24 OxfordHachette_reconstructed.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 44815817 févr. 17 09:23 OxfordHachette_unbloated.xdxf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 44815941 févr. 17 09:23 OxfordHachette.xdxf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 467 févr. 16 22:27 toc.ncx

but now I'm stuck with this error:

Running system command:
/usr/lib/stardict-tools/stardict-text2bin "/home/pascal/PocketbookDic/dict/OxfordHachette/mobi7/OxfordHachette_reconstructed.xml" "/home/pascal/PocketbookDic/dict/OxfordHachette/mobi7/OxfordHachette_reconstructed.ifo"
processing /home/pascal/PocketbookDic/dict/OxfordHachette/mobi7/OxfordHachette_reconstructed.xml...
/home/pascal/PocketbookDic/dict/OxfordHachette/mobi7/OxfordHachette_reconstructed.xml:40220: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef: no name
<key>B & B</key>
^
No spaces in filename.
$dict_bin is 'dict/OxfordHachette/mobi7/OxfordHachette_reconstructed.ifo'



I run xubuntu 18.04 specifically for this conversion and I want to use the dictionary mainly with koreader
Anybody could help please
Have a nice day

[Markismus]

@pascal jacobs If you pm me a link to the mobi-file, I will have a look. Based on your truncated output, I can't really give any pointers.

[Markismus]

@pascal jacobs Your mobi-file doesn't have a known internal format. Basically, mobi-files have a very free standard, saying where what files are, but not how the xml-code should be structured.

So KindleUnpack, the tool that I use to decypher the kindle files, quits after it has unpacked the code to raw-xml. My code tries to give a shot at the raw-xml if KindleUnpack fails at this point. However, if it is too different, like this one, you need to write a dedicated converter.

The function convertRAWML2XDXF() gives it a try, but quits gracefully. If you look at the messages displayed, the info is there:

[pascal jakobs]

Many thanks Mark,
I appreciate you tried to help me, however my output is a bit different as I can get more than raw-xml, As I said, I get html and xdxf too. Does it change your analyse?
You can get the generated files in the archive below


http://trafic-ncy.freeboxos.fr:29522...oxfordEnFr.zip

Have a good evening

[Markismus]

@pascal jakobs And that's another mobi-file. That one can be converted with kindleUnpack. However, it crashes on the key "B & B", so I've changed the code to unescape the ampersand.

The results are uploaded to pCloud. The changes to the code are on github.

[pascal jakobs]

Thanks again Mark
I'm sorry for the mess I made with the shortened filenames, you're certainly right I gave you not exactly the same file, my mistake, apologies. But I'm very happy to see the result you achieved, the rendering on koreader is gorgeous (I hope my English is appropriate). I'm sure this is going to help me at reading English books and improve my level.
Thank you, thank you, thank you
I wish peace in the world

pascal