Open Source Translation Memory Systems
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OpenTMS is not the only Open Source Translation Memory System or related project. Find below a list of other Open Source Translation Memory Systems, Translation suites and other free translation tools.
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[edit] Open source Translation Memory Systems
[edit] TinyTM, a system by the OpenTMS Partner and Sponsor ]project open[
- TinyTM is a sub project of ]project open[, inspired by FOLT and OpenTMS, as you can read here on the TinyTM website. Some more details can be found in the TinyTM Review.
- Source code: PL/SQL programming language
- Uses ODBC driver and a client application
- Running on the PostgreSQL open source database
- Microsoft Word client including a Visual Basic macro enabling the client to interact with the PL/SQL functions in the TM engine.
- Uses a variant of "Levenshtein distance" as main measure for "% match" between the Source segment and a Translation Memory Segment
- Open-Source and the SDL/Idiom Deal by Frank Bergmann, the TinyTM initiator
- Article about Open-Source = Collaboration Rules, Ecosystem, Meritocracy, Technology, Integration and the role of Forum Open Language Tools (FOLT) and ]project open[
- Today ]project open[ is listed under the OpenTMS Partners and Sponsors on the OpenTMS website.
[edit] OmegaT TMS
- OmegaT
- Source code: Java
- Operating systems: Windows, Mac and Linux
[edit] Globalsight, a Pseudo Open Source TMS
- Globalsight and CrowdSight by Welocalize
- Migrated to Java & MySQL
- Operating systems: Windows and Linux
- SRX-compliant Translation Memory (TM)
- XLIFF support
[edit] Open Source Translation Suites
- Transolution
- no development since more then 4 years
- Source code: Python
- Operating systems: Windows, Mac and Linux
[edit] Free Computer Added Translation (CAT) tools
[edit] Java Open Language Tools
- Java Open Language Tools
- Source code: Java
- XLIFF based system
- Operating systems: Windows, Mac and Linux
[edit] ForeignDesk
- ForeignDesk
- XLIFF package
- Source code: Python
- Operating systems: Windows only
[edit] Translate Toolkit & Pootle
- Translate Toolkit & Pootle
- Python tools to convert between XLIFF and PO files
[edit] ENLASO Rainbow & Ratel
- ENLASO Rainbow & Ratel
- Rainbow
- Source code: Java
- prepare files in various formats (XML, SVG, etc.)
- includes XLIFF filters as well as support for PO files, Java Properties, HTML and XML documents plus for a number of other formats
- works with TMX (Translation Memory eXchange Standard) documents, as well as other localization standard formats.
- Ratel
- Source code: Java
- allowing to create and maintain segmentation rules in SRX (segmentation Rules eXchange format)
- on-the-fly test and validation of rules and files
- Rainbow
[edit] XLIFF Tools
[edit] References
As sources for the above information the following articles as well as the websites of listed tools and other linked content like PDF files have been used.

