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Chiitrans Lite is an automatic translation tool for Japanese visual novels

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Chiitrans Lite

Chiitrans Lite is an automatic translation tool for Japanese visual novels. It extracts, parses and translates text into English on the fly.

Chiitrans Lite is the successor of the project Chiitrans.

Visit http://alexbft.github.io/chiitrans/ for more info.

Differences between Chiitrans and Chiitrans Lite

New features

  • Using modified ITH engine for text extraction
  • That means support for multiple user hooks (AGTH codes)
  • Japanese proper names dictionary (JMnedict) support
  • Improved parsing algorithm
  • PO files support
  • ATLAS Environment setting
  • Lots of usability improvements

Removed features

  • Translation to languages other than English.
  • Parsing: MeCab support
  • Parsing: WWWJDIC support
  • No arbitrary text replacements
  • No user dictionary words (except names)
  • No crowdsourced translations
  • "Fullscreen" mode

System requirements

Minimal

  • Windows XP or later
  • .NET Framework 4
  • Internet Explorer 8+
  • 250 MB of free memory

Recommended

  • Windows 7 or later
  • .NET Framework 4
  • Internet Explorer 10+
  • 600 MB of free memory
  • ATLAS V14 installed

Other project mentions

  • JMDict - Japanese-English dictionary used in Chiitrans Lite
  • Translation Aggregator - Insight for ATLAS integration, conjugations list, and more. Many thanks to author!
  • AGTH - A text extraction tool used in the previous version of Chiitrans. In this version, AGTH is only needed for launching programs using AppLocale without annoying dialog boxes.
  • ITH - Original text extraction engine
  • Visual Nover Reader - Modified text extraction engine (vnr*.dll). The project is huge, I have used only these dll files from this project.
  • Locale Emulator - An AppLocale alternative

License

Copyright 2013-2014 alexbft

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this software except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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