Third-party software

Third-party software for use with OmegaT

OpenOffice.org Free version of StarOffice. Enables OmegaT to handle files in MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint formats.
Rainbow A comprehensive suite of utilities for preparing files for translation in a CAT tools. Enables a number of file formats to be translated which cannot be handled natively in OmegaT. A detailed tutorial is available.
bitext2tmx Third-party alignment tool for producing translation memory files from legacy texts and their translations.
Samuel Murray's scripts and procedures Descriptions of and links to Samuel Murray's scripts/procedures.  Most of these scripts require MS Windows, although some procedures may also work on other platforms.
Scripts/procedures are available to enable you to do the following:
  • Skip segments containing a certain set of characters
  • Extract all source text from the project files into a single, large text file
  • Create a TMX file containing all strings, with identical source and target
  • Add terms to a glossary whilst translating in OmegaT
  • Add numbers to all segments, making them all "unique"
  • Remove all text except tags, or all tags except text
  • Check spelling (various procedures)