OmegaT
A Catalogue of Free/Open Source Software for Translators
| OmegaT | |
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| Category: | Translation Tools |
| Typology: | Translation environment |
OmegaT® is a free and open source multiplatform Computer Assisted Translation tool with fuzzy matching, translation memory, keyword search, glossaries, and translation leveraging into updated projects.
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| http://www.omegat.org/ | |
| Application Type: | Desktop |
| Programming language: | Java |
| Operating systems: | Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X |
| Requirements: | Java Runtime Environment 1.5+ |
| Latest release: | 2.6.3_1 (standard), 3.0.0 (latest) (2013/04/25) |
| License: | GNU General Public License v. 3 |
| Integrates: | Hunspell, LanguageTool, Lucene Tokenizers, Okapi filters |
| Available Resources | |
| Download page: | http://www.omegat.org/en/dl_overview.php |
| Documentation: | http://www.omegat.org/en/documentation.html |
| User forum: | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/omegatinfo.pngIn March 2012, the user group had 1720 subscribers. 39 of them participated in the discussions. The average number of messages per month in 2011 was 304. |
| IRC: | irc://irc.freenode.net#omegat |
| Developer forum: | http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=omegat-development |
| Software Capabilities | |
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| Implemented standards: | Unicode, TXT, TAB, CSV, TBX, TMX, XLIFF |
| Office document formats: | TXT, CSV, TAB, DOCX, DOTX, XLSX, XLTX, XLSM, PPTX, PPSX, POTX, ODT, ODS, ODP, SXW, SXC, SXI, SRT, DocBook, LaTeX |
| DTP formats: | IDML (InDesign), XTG (QuarkXPress), TAG (QuarkXPress) |
| Multimedia formats: | SVG |
| Software localization formats: | RC, POT, PO, Java Resource Bundles, XML (Android resource), TS (Qt Linguist), DTD (Mozilla) |
| Web localization formats: | HTML, XML, RESX, JSON |
| Translation files from other tools: | TTX (SDL Trados), TXML (WordFast Pro) |
| Main features: | Multiple source documents
Document analysis Batch processing Pre-translation with resource prioritizing Fuzzy matching Automatic insertion of exact matches Automatic insertion of fuzzy matches TM multi-directionality Multiple TMs per project Multilingual TMs Alternative translations (same source) Glossary matches Multiple glossaries per project External dictionaries Remote MT interface Display of resource meta-data Support for segment comments Filter-based navigation Auto-propagation Project statistics Concordance search in project files Concordance search in external files On-the-fly spell checking On-the-fly grammar/style checking On-demand quality checks Customizable filters Customizable segmentation rules Customizable fuzzy match rate Customizable spell-checking dictionaries Regex-based search Customizable quality checks Customizable keyboard shortcuts |
| Project Details | |
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Launched as an independent initiative, the project is led by a group of recognized project leaders. Code is developed on a volunteer basis. The software and all associated features are available under a single free/open-source license (strong copyleft). Copyright ownership is distributed across the individual developers. The project works on the basis of informal anarchic goal-setting. Decision making is balanced.
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| Community | |
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The software is predominantly developed by several people collaborating in an informal or not industrialized way.
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 | Active development. |
| Active user communication venue(s). |
| Professional services available.info.pngCustomized development |
| The project has derivatives.info.pngOmegaTplus, Boltran, Autshumato ITE |
| Maturity | |
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The project was started on 2002/11/28 and is registered on a well-known forge.info.pnghttp://sourceforge.net/projects/omegat
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Current development status is stable. In 2011, 2 major versions and 13 minor updates were released.
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| Source code repository.info.pnghttp://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=svn&group_id=68187 |
| Bug tracking system.info.pnghttp://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=68187&atid=520347 |
| Feature request system.info.pnghttp://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=68187&atid=520350 |
| Documented contributing procedures.info.pnghttp://www.omegat.org/en/howtos/localizing_omegat.php |
| Reputation | |
In March 2012, the software was downloaded 5033 times. Basing on the number of downloads during the week following the last 3 stable releases, the regular user base might be estimated at approximately 1344 users.
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| Published books/articles/blog posts.info.pnghttp://www.ultimabooks.it/guida-completa-a-omegat-tecniche-trucchi-e-consigli-per-traduttori-e-project-manager-1, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iakqcUvRsEU, http://www.your-translations.com/omegat.php, http://www.leuce.com/translate/omegat.html, http://translatorsteacup.lingocode.com/tag/omegat, http://www.translationdirectory.com/article512.htm, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wv79R9Sp6E, http://www.english-spanish-translator.org/omegat, http://thoughtsontranslation.com/2008/04/11/omegat-a-free-and-very-useful-tent, http://pinitostranslation.com/2011/09/15/omega-for-translators |
| Threads on translator-specific forums.info.pnghttp://www.proz.com/forum/omegat_support-586.html, http://www.linkedin.com/groups/OmegaT-Translation-Professionals-1769774, http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/MegaBBS/forum-view.asp?forumid=58&catlock=7 |
| Included in GNU/Linux distros.info.pnghttp://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=omegat, http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=omegat, https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/OmegaT |
| User reviews and ratings.info.pnghttp://sourceforge.net/projects/omegat/reviews/ |
| Recent tweets about the project.info.pnghttp://topsy.com/s?q=omegat+%23xl8 |
| Ohloh profile.info.pnghttp://www.ohloh.net/p/omegat |
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