Software Applications: SCRIPTURE TRANSLATION, Open Source

FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) is the lexical and text tools component of SIL FieldWorks . It is an open source desktop application designed to help field linguists perform many common tasks. It can help you: record and manage l ...

Application - languist - 02/07/2012 - 13:23 - 3 comments

Pathway takes Scripture translation or dictionary data and presents it in various publishable forms. It can be used in either SIL FieldWorks and UBS Paratext. Once installed, you will see new export options which allow you to send data ...

Application - dhigby - 09/30/2011 - 09:55 - 2 comments

A wiki setup for new Scripture translations and works on discipleship, intended to be shared freely on the web. Content can also be distributed to mobile phones as audio or video.  They have thought through issues of how to assure quality if i ...

Application - sewhite - 12/28/2011 - 16:48 - 1 comment

Translation Editor helps Bible translators edit and check Biblical text in a vernacular language. In Translation Editor, members of a translation team can do any of the following: Edit Scripture text in almost any language of the wor ...

Application - languist - 02/07/2012 - 13:14 - 0 comments

Introduction Bibledit is a multi-platform Bible editor, providing tools to the Bible translator.   Features Native USFM text editor, several texts can be opened at once Project notes editor Chapter and bo ...

Application - dhigby - 12/28/2011 - 14:45 - 0 comments

PdfDroplet is a free, simple little tool which only does one thing:  it takes your PDF and gives you a new one, with the pages combined and reordered, ready for saving & printing as booklets. With PdfDroplet, you can make several booklet t ...

Application - hatton - 11/03/2011 - 10:45 - 0 comments

A Microsoft Word template to provide smarter and safer layout of RTF files exported from Paratext , Adapt It or Fieldworks Translation Editor . To see why you might choose to use SILAS rather than just printing the RTF file as it comes ou ...

Application - dhigby - 06/30/2011 - 21:38 - 0 comments

Facilitates a two column translation approach with Scripture text, the source text on one side and the target text on the other side. They write: We are coining the term "manual adaptation" to refer to OurWord's process . ...

Application - dhigby - 12/07/2010 - 15:05 - 1 comment

SFM2Web is a Python3 program that converts materials encoded using SIL's Standard Format Marker format (see a very brief description here ) into web pages. The program can convert a lexicon, interlinear texts, Bible books, a multilanguage phra ...

Application - dhigby - 05/02/2011 - 06:13 - 0 comments

WordSend is a software project that allows you to convert Scripture files from  Unicode   USFM  (and eventually from selected other formats) to other formats for the purpose of publishing those Scriptures in various print or electron ...

Application - dhigby - 11/11/2009 - 14:32 - 0 comments