This free software is useful for converting existing texts like those available on the Documents List pages into Devanagari and Roman+diacritics, as well as for typing your own texts. You DO NOT need ITRANS, TeX, LaTeX, ghostview/ ghostscript, web browsers, MSWord or any word processor to get this program working.

The Itranslator 99 uses 8-bit true type fonts and is compatible with all versions of Windows.

The newer Itranslator 2003 uses 16-bit Unicode-compatible fonts and is working only on Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003.

A detailed 'Technical Manual of Itranslator' developed by Ulrich Stiehl is available, which includes a comparison of Itranslator 99 and 2003.

• Avinash Chopde's HomePage - (The author of ITRANS) - describes the latest release of ITRANS and has downloads available; also describes his other Package for sanskrit processing - for easy entry of Indic Script text using MS-Windows word-processors.

Itrans Direct Web Interface -

• Main site - for online conversion of Itrans to Devanaagarii and other Indic Scripts.

Itrans to unicode Devanagari using Perl A Perl script

Vishvas Vasuki has improved the above version in itrans2devHtml.pl which is a slight modification of the same, and may save people some time.

Itrans/MAC -

• Itrans for the MAC platform is given at Avinash Chopde's site and http://sanskrit.gde.to/sanskritfaq.html. The details are given in http://www.dvaita.info/shrao/itrans/.

PC GhostScript GhostViewer Software -

• GhostScript and GSview(*) - The latest versions of GsView/GhostScript, these are now available for many platforms.
• Test PostScript file - Use these test PostScript files, to check the installation of your postscript viewer.

TeX/LaTeX -

• LaTex - summary reference help file.
• TeX/LaTex installation - A FAQ for on various platforms.

• http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/(free)(*)
• http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/download.php(free)(*)
• http://www.ftpplanet.com/downloadLE.asp?ipswitch(demo).
• Real Player and Real Producer basic (free, signup needed).(*)
• Wavepad audio editor and converter at www.nch.com.au (demo but shareware); the site also has CD to mp3/Wav converter.
• Ajit Krishnan's Mudgala Kosha, ime, DLI viewer.(*)
• Website icon creator and image processor IcoFX. (*)
• http://www.youtube-mp3.org to convert YouTube video files to audio.
• Irfanview, a freeware graphic viewer and processor. Its file extension may be a useful feature.(*)
• VLC Multi-Media player from http://www.videolan.org.(*)
• ccleaner for cleaning PC including registry. Both windows and Mac versions are available.
• Open Office download.(*)
• Audacity, a multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.(*)
• Excellent audio/video conversion tools (e.g. rm2mp3) at http://www.boilsoft.com/ (at price).
• MP3 to WMA converter. Use 64kbps,4800khz.
• www.yousendit.com to send files of uptp 50-100 MB to anyone with email address.
• Tiff2pdf is a very simple tool to create PDF from TIFF files. It is faster than Adobe Acrobat Pro. One can save lot of time especially when one needs to convert in large quantity. download Tiff2pdf from 4shared.com (requires sign up).
• Find broken links on web sites using the free software Xenu.
• Articles about web search Organic Search Engine Rankings, Improvng Search Engine Ranking.
• Archive.org saves snapshots of various sites from all over the world. Use http://wayback.archive.org. For example, see http://www.uppathil.net
• Check if a website is down by checking it in isitdownrightnow.com, http://www.websitedown.info, just-ping.com (checks from 50 world-wide locations), downforeveryoneorjustme.com, et cetera.
• A software to create html index of ebooks (or any other files) in your collection http://www.arclab.com/products/dir2html
• http://www.pdfconverter.com/convert-to-pdf-online-free/, hassle-free tool creates PDF files from virtually any document format and sends it to your email address.
• PDF-XChange Viewer, free PDF editor/reader that allows viewing and editing PDFs.
• Component Software Difference file-difference version analysis tool for Microsoft Windows.
• kdiff3, to compare files side by side, like xxdiff on Linux/Unix/Windows. Other difference tools are linked here.
• Pick a license from http://creativecommons.org and mention that in the pages, for example, to allow non-commercial use, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/.
• Folder size for Windows (Not for Vista).
• Simple html2text conversion software. Use binary .exe file.
• WinRAR archiver.
• vcdgear VCD to mpeg extraction software.
• Digital video information with software links.
• Super software from erightsoft for audio/video extraction from video files.
• Scantailor, an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, and removing garbage automatically. One needs to generate TIFF images from PDF to work with them. See tutorials at Vimeo or YouTube

• Interesting sites : lifehacker.com for software help, www.cultureunplugged.com for documentaries, ted.com for lectures, Facebook for kids(Dhrup), Amit Agarwal's http://www.labnol.org, for useful websites, etsy.con, freesound.org, for clips of various audio clips for your videos.

• Parivartan software to convert XDVNG to Unicode. mirror 10/2008.
• Search unicode character in any of the scripts, for examples Devanagari and Roman+Diacritics as Latin Extended A. Also see A to Z Index of Unicode Characters with example I WITH MACRON, LATIN SMALL LETTER. Add to it Wikipedia entry for Unicode.
• See how your webpage will look under different OS/browser combinations.
• A Windows based free music utility, Your Tanpura http://www.yourtanpura.co.nr built by Bala Subramanian.
• A unicode conversion gateway allows redisplay of major newspapers in different languages to be displayed in Unicode. The newspapers which their sites having their own standard fonts can now be read in unicode. The covered language scripts are Devanagari, Bengali, Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu.
• Girgit site conversion. Type http://sanskritdocuments.org/all_sa and choose your language script of choice to view it.
• Converters from Older fonts to Unicodes and reversed. Includes conversion for Sanskrit99(need to fix conjunts dva, hR^i, ru, dya, ~N, ~nch, ~nj, etc) Agra font , Chanakya, DV-YogeshEN, DVB-YogeshEN, DVBW-YogeshEN, HTChanakya, krutidev010, shivaji , shrI-lipi. All these are linked from Scientific and Technical Hindi portion.
  
• Jagdeep Singh Dangi's Prakhar_Devanagari_Font_Parivartak is supposed to be a refined way to convert Hindi from various font family to unicode. It is reported in hindimedia.in. Read about Jagdeep Dangi's other achivements by clicking at "More.." at the bottom of his webpage or Bhasha Setu news item in bhashaindia.com among many success stories. bhashaindia.com by Microsoft has many unicode conversion tools.
• Hindi Font Converters.
• Tim Bellefleur, under the guidance from Prof. Adheesh Sathaye of Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver has developed a Devanagari Qwerty keyboard utility http://www.ubcsanskrit.ca/. It uses minimal Alt-Shift-Cntrl strokes to represent Devanagari characters. Works on both Windows and Mac. At his site, http://sanskrit.asianfolklore.ca, there are also additional tools developed such as Devanagari Script writing tutor, phonology chart, sandhI rules, lessons and exercises.
• Experiment with a new free IME (portable) for Devanagari and other Indic scripts. This supports both phonetic and INSCRIPT input schemes. The IME is available at https://sites.google.com/site/bhashaime . The supported scripts are Devanagari, e-Grantha, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, IAST Roman and ISO15919 Roman. Vedic extensions are supported for Devanagari and e-Grantha. The site lists links to Recommended Free Fonts. For additional information, contact bhashaime at gmail.com .
• Ranganath Atreya (Daiva Jnanam) has created LipikaIME, a user-configurable, phonetic, Input Method Engine for Mac OS X. It has built-in support for typing Devanagari using ITRANS, Harvard-Kyoto, and Baraha. It can also be extended to other languages and transliteration schemes by adding new schemes in Google Input Tools' Canonical Scheme Format. Minimum requirement is Mac OS X 10.8.0 (Mountain Lion).
• A useful plugin to start typing in your favorite Indian language (including Samskritam) from your browser http://www.vishalon.net/Download.aspx.
• Additionally, Language Technologies Research Center, LTRC of IIIT has unicode converters for ISCII, DevPooja, DevPriya, DV/DVB Yogesh, ,and Shusha. Rajneesh Mangla's converters for various Hindi sites using their own specialized fonts such as naiduniya/webdunia, st/sahityakunja, krutidev/arjun, amara ujala, chanakyam bhasakar, surekh.
  Track the comprehensive Wikipedia entry for Devanagari converters.
  After conversion to unicode, use Ajit Krishnan's mudgala IME Unicode to Itrans conversion before processing in Itrans processor.
• Online extraction of audio from Youtube video.

A note by Mihas Bayaryn, a Belarusian-English scholar: The phonetic keyboardlayout for devanaAgarI was developed using the program Keyboard layout Manager (devanagari inscript layout requires special character-marks on keyboard). Unicode format has its own defects but it is the only solution (it is really multilingual). There are some reasons for this. 1) Text in unicode is searcheable. 2) It is easy to format this text in many fonts (at this moment there about devanagari fonts for unicode, the best is Sanskrit2003). 3) It is easy to convert this text to other encodings (for example by Word macros). 4) Unicode text can contain characters in many languages (for example Belarusian English Sanskrit and many others at once). There are about 20 different indian encodings for devanagari (one font - one encoding). These texts are not sercheable, it is difficult to convert them in other encodings, and they support only devanagari and roman scripts (not cyrilic for example).
Q : How does one use .dll and .msi files? .msi file format is executable in WinXP - like all .exe files. And .dll file in directory is the library-file of keyboard layout. To install this keyboard driver one has to:
1. unpack keyboard.zip file in one directory
2. run sanskrit.msi file
3. go to Control Panel > Languages and Regional Settings > Languages > More > Languages and IME
4. then add Sanskrit as Language and Sanskrit Romanized as IME.
5. all is done. To type devanagari in text-editor one also must have installed at least one unicode font which supports devanagari (Mangal, Arial MS Unicode, Sanskrit 2003, GIST-Yogesh and others).
Using changes keyboard layout to Sanskrit and type.

Also try out other interfaces at http://www.aksharamala.com, Itrans online interface.

• Itrans On-line Web Interface
• HiTrans with Itrans transliteration scheme.
• Google Transliteration IME (*)
• web-interface
• Vinay Jain's HiTrans on giitaayan.com
• Transcription tool at http://www.ashtangayoga.info.
• Sanscript at http://learnsanskrit.org which also has a detailed well-prepared tutorial for Sanskrit learning.
• aksharamukha Transliterate Sanskrit in 19 Scripts (All Indian Languages including South East Asian Languages like Thai, Burmese & Cambodian). It also supports the Ancient Grantha script and Tamil with superscripted numerals. Vinodh Rajan vinodh.vinodh at gmail.com
• Vishvas Vasuki has compiled various Sanskrit programming open resources including Natural Language Processing (nlp) at http://sanskritnlp.appspot.com. See "Transliteration tools" among many links.
• BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts. It is supposed to include all the common Vedic accents.
• diCrunch and its mirror is a converter for Balram, CSX, IAST, Harvard-Kyoto, and other Unicode fonts of Indian scripts prepared and used by developers of http://www.granthamandira.com/. It is a repository of Sanskrit and Bengali texts belonging to Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition. The repository is also mirrored at http://www.ignca.nic.in/sanskrit.htm, at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA).