Conversion tools from various formats to StarDict.

Currently it can convert following dictionaries:

• GNU/FDL Anglicko-Český slovník
• GNU/FDL Německo-Český slovník
• Slovník cizích slov
• dicts.info dictionaries

You can find more information at project website:

https://cihar.com/software/slovnik/

Git repository is available at GitHub:

https://github.com/nijel/stardicter

Scripts require dictzip to compress dictionaries. You can get it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/

You can either clone the git repositry and run the scripts from it or install using pip:

pip install stardicter

The main script is sdgen.py, it downloads and generates StarDict dictionaries. Check it's help for more information.

Additionally there are some helper script which directly generate tarballs with dictionary.

The https://dicts.info/ server provides downloadable dictionaries for many languages. Unfortunately the license does not allow redistribution, so you need to generate them yourself. With stardicter it is easy:

./dicts_info_tarball.sh italian czech

This generates tarball with italian-czech dictionary. You can choose any language provided by the service.

Copyright (c) 2006 - 2025 Michal Čihař

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