Introduction¶
BasicCAT is an open source computer-aided translation tool, which aims at providing a simple and useful tool for translators. The name is BasicCAT, because of its simplicity and its programming language—Basic. Basic is easy to learn and everyone can build a suitable CAT tool based on BasicCAT’s source code.
It has the following features:
- Translation Memory
- Terminology Management
- Language Check
- Select words to get meanings
- Quickfill
- AutoCorrect
- Interactive Machine Translation
- Export Word for external review
- Export bilingual paragraph files
- Export to markdown with notes
- Merge and split segments freely
- Online Dictionaries Integration
- Support Machine Translation Services Provided by Google, Microsoft, etc.
- Pretranslate based on translation memory and machine translation
- Support common file formats: TXT, idml, xliff, gettext Po
- Support three translation standards: TMX, TBX and SRX
- Sharing translation memory and term online
- Version Control and Collaboration Using Git