This little free tool called Glossary Converter does exactly what its name suggests. It converts glossaries from one format to another. Available formats include some Excel formats, the TermBase eXchange format (TBX), and MultiTerm export files (XDT and XML).
Here is a list of the currently supported file formats (Since the tool is mainly targeted at conversions between MultiTerm and Excel, some of these formats are only supported in a basic way, so please read the online help for details): MultiTerm XDT and XML pairs, TBX, UTX, TMX, ODS, GLO, SDL BeGlobal CSV, SDL ETS XML.
In the past, if you wanted to use the Glossary Converter, you needed the appropriate software installed. For example, if you wanted to convert an Excel spreadsheet into a MultiTerm format, you did need to have Excel, LibreOffice, or OpenOffice installed to read the spreadsheet, and you did need to have MultiTerm, or Trados Studio installed to generate the MultiTerm TermBase. This is no longer the case. Below we list some features of this converter. For more details, please refer to the help page.
Features
- Reading .sdltb and writing .xdt/.xml without MultiTerm or Studio being installed
- Using the -l option without Libre Office installed will use the native .csv/.txt component, bypassing Excel completely
- The default output when MultiTerm can’t be found is .xdt
- Conversion filters can be defined
- Initial support for Babylon .bgl (read-only)
- New formats: SDL Language Cloud .xml and SDL BeGlobal .csv
- Support for MultiTerm, Trados Studio, Passolo (.glo format), .ods files, OpenOffice and LibreOffice (if you have one of those installed, you don’t need Excel), Office 365, and Windows 10
- Can handle .csv files with semicolons or tabs (automatically detected)
- Merging of multiple files
- Support for Unicode .csv files
- Command Line Mode
Available for: Windows
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