OmegaT is a free and open source translation memory application written in Java. It’s a tool intended for professional translators.
OmegaT has the following features:
- Fuzzy matching
- Match propagation
- Simultaneous processing of multiple-file projects
- Simultaneous use of multiple translation memories
- User glossaries with recognition of inflected forms
- Document file formats include:
Open Document Format (the native format of the LibreOffice, OpenOffice and Calligra office suites)
Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx)
XHTML and HTML
MediaWiki (Wikipedia)
Plain text
…plus about 30 other file formats - Unicode (UTF-8) support: can be used with non-Latin alphabets
- Support for right-to-left languages
- Integral spelling checker
- Compatible with other translation memory applications (TMX, TTX, TXML, XLIFF, SDLXLIFF)
OmegaT is cross-platform: it will run on any system on which the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) has been or can be installed.
Over on YouTube, user weasel75 has produced a short (10 minutes) tutorial on the basics of OmegaT. Hopefully you’ll find it as useful as I did.