Very simple dictionary search application supporting;
- EPWING(w/ Graphics, Sounds and Movies)
- EPWING ebz compression (.ebz)
- LingvoDSL (.dsl)
- LingvoDSL dz compression (.dsl.dz)
- MDict (.mdx, .mdd)
- StarDict (.ifo .dict)
- StarDict (.dict.dz)
- PDIC/Unicode (PDIC format v6.00, 6.10) (.DIC)
It also supports some online dictionary API
- Oxford Dictionaries API
A app looks like
You can download a zip archive from github release
After downloading the zip archive, please extract zip archive. The application is written by Java, you can run the application on any PC platforms, such as macOS, Windows and Linux.
On linux or macOS which already have java 11 or later installed and set PATH properly,
ebviewer-0.7.3/ebviewer
On windows
ebviewer-0.7.3\ebviewer.bat
When you have java but there is no PATH set,
set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk11.0.123.456\
ebviewer-0.7.3\ebviewer.bat
You can download native binary distribution of EBViewer for linux.
You don't need a Java runtime environment to run it.
Native binary image is generated by GraalVM CE version 22.0.0.2 Java 11 native-image command.
EBViewer can be run on server and access from Web browser. It uses JetBrains Projector technology. Please see Projector installer for details.
You need to install Java Runtime Version 11 or 17 on your operating system. When you want to watch movie in your dictionary, VLC is required.
ebviewer uses Java and Gradle build system.
From source distribution
unzip ebviewer-source-0.7.1.zip
cd ebviewer-source-0.7.1
./buildw.bat build
From github git repository
git clone https://github.com/eb4j/ebviewer
cd ebviewer
./gradlew build
Some codes are borrowed from omegat-plugin-epwing and OmegaT project.
Copyright (C) 2016-2021 Hiroshi Miura
Copyright (C) 2020 Suguru Ono
Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Aaron Madlon-Kay
Copyright (C) 2007-2015 Didier Briel
Copyright (C) 2014 wak
Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Alex Buloichik
Copyright (C) 2007 Zoltan Bartko
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Keith Godfrey, Maxym Mykhalchuk, and Henry Pijffers
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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