Dictionaries support on Koreader - Kobo

[atti]

I'm lost!

I've got a Kobo Clara HD with Koreader installed and working. I'm trying to get italian, english and spanish dictionaries.

Installing from Koreader only shows it-en and it-ru dictionaries, but I want an italian-only dictionary, and a spanish-only too. English-only seems to be provided by the "GNU collaborative international dictionary".

If I open the Dictionary support page ( https://github.com/koreader/koreader...ionary-support ), the Firedict site doesn't have the dictionaries I'm looking for.

Kobo default reader (Nickel) has these dictionaries (both italian-only and spanish-only are pretty good), I've them in my device, although they're in "dicthtml" format. The same dictionaries are available for download here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=196931
The problem is that they're installed by Nickel, and I need them in Koreader.

I can't find the way to convert dicthtml to stardict:

- penelope is not supported anymore (and if I try to install, pip gives me an error)

- apparently there's this project, "pyglossary", that is still mantained, that replaces penelope, and that converts many formats to stardict, but not from dicthtml, or maybe I can't choose which option for the "input format"

- there's also dictutil (https://pgaskin.net/dictutil/) that extracts the kobo's dicthtml to a collection of html/xml files, but I can't find the way to convert these to stardict

I dont' know what to do. Why is it so difficult? I've been searching so much with no result of instructions how to install these dictionaries! Am I the only italian/spanish speaking person using koreader in the world? Please help!

[NiLuJe]

You won't be able to convert Kobo's own dictionary, for obvious reasons (DRM).

But you can deal with the format itself (via dicutil & pyglossary [might need a dev version, but it supports it just fine]). Meaning if you can't find stardict dictionaries, the custom dictionaries thread in the Kobo forum may have something you want buried somewhere in it that you can deal with.

[pazos]

Also there're fine dicts based on Wikidictionary on https://github.com/BoboTiG/ebook-reader-dict/releases. Both in Kobo format and in stardict. Didn't check other languages but spanish looks complete enough for me.

[atti]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

You won't be able to convert Kobo's own dictionary, for obvious reasons (DRM).

Actually with dictutil I managed to decrypt Kobo's dictionaries: I got a bunch (100+) of html/xml files with definitions, perfectly readable with firefox or text editor.

I don't know how to convert these files to a stardict format.

[atti]

Originally Posted by pazos

Also there're fine dicts based on Wikidictionary on https://github.com/BoboTiG/ebook-reader-dict/releases. Both in Kobo format and in stardict. Didn't check other languages but spanish looks complete enough for me.

This is great! Thank you so much. Spanish dictionary works quite good! I see they come from wiktionary. I just wrote to the author so maybe I can help him to add italian support as well..

[atti]

Originally Posted by atti

Actually with dictutil I managed to decrypt Kobo's dictionaries: I got a bunch (100+) of html/xml files with definitions, perfectly readable with firefox or text editor.

I had two people messaging me to know I did decrypt Kobo's dictionaries. It was long ago so I don't remember very well, but I've some notes on my computer, so I probably used dictutils:

https://pgaskin.net/dictutil/dictutil/unpack.html
https://github.com/pgaskin/dictutil/releases/tag/v0.3.2

with this command:

./dictutil-linux-64bit unpack dicthtml-it.zip

and I got the input files following one of these links:

official kobo dictionaries: (to download dictionaries from kobo website)
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=196931

custom dics: (to download the same dictionaries from mobileread.com)
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=232883

The v1 dictionaries are served from download.kobobooks.com/ereader/dictionaries/dicthtml*.zip, while the v2 dictionaries are served from download.kobobooks.com/ereader/dictionaries/v2/dicthtml*.zip.

Then some notes point to:

Koreader dir: (formato StarDict)
/run/media/user/KOBOeReader/.adds/koreader/data/dict

Nickel dir: (formato html)
/run/media/user/KOBOeReader/.kobo/dict