# Chiitrans Lite Chiitrans Lite is an automatic translation tool for Japanese visual novels. It extracts, parses and translates text into English on the fly.

Chiitrans Lite is the successor of the project Chiitrans.

Visit http://alexbft.github.io/chiitrans/ for more info.

Differences between Chiitrans and Chiitrans Lite

New features

Using modified ITH engine for text extraction
That means support for multiple user hooks (AGTH codes)
Japanese proper names dictionary (JMnedict) support
Improved parsing algorithm
PO files support
ATLAS Environment setting
Lots of usability improvements

Removed features

Translation to languages other than English.
Parsing: MeCab support
Parsing: WWWJDIC support
No arbitrary text replacements
No user dictionary words (except names)
No crowdsourced translations
"Fullscreen" mode

System requirements

Minimal

Windows XP or later
.NET Framework 4
Internet Explorer 8+
250 MB of free memory

Other project mentions

JMDict - Japanese-English dictionary used in Chiitrans Lite
Translation Aggregator - Insight for ATLAS integration, conjugations list, and more. Many thanks to author!
AGTH - A text extraction tool used in the previous version of Chiitrans. In this version, AGTH is only needed for launching programs using AppLocale without annoying dialog boxes.
ITH - Original text extraction engine
Visual Nover Reader - Modified text extraction engine (vnr*.dll). The project is huge, I have used only these dll files from this project.
Locale Emulator - An AppLocale alternative

License

Copyright 2013-2014 alexbft

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this software except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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