C++ library providing support for reading from Slob (sorted list of blobs) dictionary files.

Slob is a read-only, compressed format that was created for the Aard dictionary reader. The keys are sorted using the Unicode Collation Algorithm.

You can find a collection of dictionaries in the Slob format here.

• cmake >= 2.8
• icu
• liblzma
• zlib

sudo apt install cmake liblzma-dev zlib1g-dev libicu-dev

mkdir cmake
cd cmake
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

SLOBReader s_reader;
s_reader.open("wordnet-3.1.slob");

SLOBDict dict(s_reader);

auto matches = dict["searchterm"];

if (matches.size() > 0)
  ...

BSD 2-clause license.