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 https://sanskritdocuments.org/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. (*)
• To convert YouTube video files to audio, there are many good converters online. Among them, some to mention with different features, are http://youtubemp3.to, https://y2mate.com, http://www.listentoyoutube.com/.
• Convert YouTube videos to various formats at http://www.flvto.com . It handles very long videos as well is very fast.
• Download the videos from YouTube and convert in to suitable format using http://youtubeinmp4.com/, Firefox Addon download-youtube, https://y2mate.com, http://keepvid.com/, and changing youtube.com to ssyoutube.com for the same video.
• Google's Submit URL for search engines on Webmaster Tools site to crawl the web.
• Irfanview, a freeware graphic viewer and processor. (*)
• The online-image-editor.com allows image editing and transperency background creating features.
• VLC Multi-Media player from http://www.videolan.org.(*)
• ccleaner for cleaning PC including registry. Both windows and Mac versions are available.
• 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.
• 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
• Use Process Explorer and other utilities from a company that was acquired by Microsoft but then left untouched. Process explorer direct download. This is referred in lifehacker article Reclaim Memory by Mastering Windows' Task Manager.
• Install https://www.ghostery.com/en/ an internet privacy tool. Disable everything in the preferences, meaning select all in the Trackers of Blocking options. Add sites you want to view correctly as whiltelisted site.
• An intersting posts on cre8asiteforums.com : Search Engine Optimization, Hall Of Shame, Why the Search Engine Optimization and Marketing industry gets a bad rap from the public? It is unfortunate, like many other things on internet.
• 7-Zip decompression software Windows
• WinZip decompression software Windows
• 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.
• Article emphasizing not to disable right click to prevent copying for the files posted on the sites.
• http://perishablepress.com/better-default-directory-views-with-htaccess/
• A software to create html index of ebooks (or any other files) in your collection http://www.arclab.com/products/dir2html
• A snap2html by RL Vision gives nicely formatted page in html format. Appears better than dir2html.
• Free Alarm Clock, a useful computer alarm clock.
• Perl programming resource : http://wiht.link/perl-resources has produced a comprehensive guide that includes everything from the basics through to detailed tutorials and places online.
• A simple tool for batch processing to remove the greyscale or colour background scanned book images. http://www.buddism.ru///ocrlib/Image2TIFF.zip .
• Neeraj Kaple has created http://techmazic.com/ that lists many chosen links of useful utility and informative sites. The motto is "TechMazic, Let's Learn Something." Some of the links are categorized as Useful Google Chrome Extensions, Search engine optimization (SEO) Strategies, Best and Most useful Websites, Best Blogging Tools, et cetera.
• CSS mouseover for links and images. A useful simple feature for comact website.

• PDF Utilities
  • 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.
  • wkhtmltopdf is a versatile multiplatform "command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the QT Webkit rendering engine."
  • pdftk. There is a GUI utility for pdftk at http://pdftk4all.sourceforge.net.
  • PDF-XChange Viewer, free PDF editor/reader that allows viewing and editing PDFs.
  • Batch Merge PDF software is a free tool for batch merging of pdf files in multiple folders. The site also provides a picture tutorial on how to use it. An example would be to merge split files of a book or thesis such as posted on shodhaganga
  • Online DjVu to PDF converter at https://www.djvu-pdf.com/.
  • 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. or
  • http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in.
  • https://www.naps2.com/ NAPS2 (Not Another PDF Scanner 2), a document scanning software. It allows to scan documents from WIA- and TWAIN-compatible scanners, organize (Rotate, crop, and rearrange) the pages, and save in different file formats such as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and other It supports to OCR texts in 40 different language scripts. Additional information is available at sourceforge.net.
  • Online PDF to images conversion : http://pdf2jpg.net/ http://www.freepdfconvert.com/pdf-image
  • Offline PDF to images conversion : http://www.wikihow.com/Convert-PDF-to-Image-Files.
  • Scantailor, an interactive post-processing tool for scanned books with PDF 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
  • PDFill PDF Editor and tools are built by http://www.plotsoft.com/, alternatively avaialble at http://www.pdfill.com/. Editor costs $19.99 (Deceber 2015) and PDF tools and writer are free, irrespective. PDF Tools can be used to merge, split, reorder, delete, encrypt, decrypt, rotate, crop and reformat PDF pages, add information/header/footer/watermark, convert image to PDF or PDF to image, scan a Paper to PDF, and more.

• To view Google books from India using bypassy.com.
• 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 (Mostly suitable for older Win XP. Not for Vista or higher Windows OS). This adds a field in standard Windows Explorer.
• http://www.mindgems.com/ offers stand-alone Folder Size for all Windows OS versions and Fast Duplicate File Finder with disk clean up as freeware. (*) The other products include Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder, Easy Screen Capture and Annotation, Easy Web Gallery Builder, Audio Dedupe and others at a fee.
• Compare two URLs online at http://www.copyscape.com/compare.php. The URL is stripped first by html tags and the text is compared word by word.
• Linux Live USB Creator to burn an ISO image in to a USB drive. A simple of .iso file on the ISB does not help. This can be used to start up Ubtuntu from the USB drive if the main system is damaged. Follow instructions and give 400+Mb for persistence. For a DVD copy, use "Burn using ImgBurn" option in explorer (right click on ISO image.)
• A windows version of stream editor is available at sed windows. Other tools and packages that mimick Unix envrionment in windows are available from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/.
• Epub/.epub reader from http://calibre-ebook.com.
• Simple html2text conversion software. Use binary .exe file. Markup Validation to check the HTML files for errors. w3.org also has broken link checker as well.
• http://www.brokenlinkcheck.com to check broken links. The free version scans 3000 pages at a time per IP address.
• 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.

• 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.

• An AddOn on Firefox is now available at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/parivartan/ that allows conversion of selected to different Indian script instantly.
• 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 at http://browsershots.org.
• PageSpeed Tools by Google Developers, to analyze and optimize sites. Also see Web Performance Best Practices and rules to check website performance and viewability features.
• Online Devanagari sorting utility tool prepared by Anubhav Chattoraj.
• A Windows based free music utility, Your Tanpura http://www.yourtanpura.co.nr built by Bala Subramanian.
• Gooreader from Google to download and/or read books online/offline.
• Play with different color combination for website development at http://www.color-hex.com/color/ffcc99
• CSS tricks How to redirect index.html to index.php at http://css-tricks.com. In contiuation, .htaccess for html to php at http://stackoverflow.com.

• Volunteers at odia.org have developed online tool WebDhwani to convert text to display in Odia and Devanagari. The expected input is in Itrans.
• Converters from Older fonts to Unicodes and reversed.
• Hindi Font Converters.
• For the conversion from DV-TTSurekh to Unicode, these sites were useful nukkadh.com and innovatrix.co.in. It was tested using http://www.sansknet.ac.in/ See under Contents Koshas and 14 other Koshas.
• 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 .
• 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.
  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.
• Ajit Krishnan has experimented with Devanagari IME for Mac users. Visit video instructions on "How to type devanagari script on OSX." The associated installation instructions and details are given at http://www.aupasana.com/software (scroll down to "lipika ime").
• Online extraction of audio from videos from several sites such as YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, SantaBanta, Sevenload, Shoutfile, Vimeo, and many others.

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.

  For offline use to generate Devanagari text (Marathi Hindi Sanskrit), try https://nityin.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/google-offline-typing-tool-for-indian-languages/ http://www.vishalon.net/Download.aspx http://innolea.com/transliteration-typing-tools-for-hindi-regional-indian-languages/6766

  Hindi hunspell dictionary which can be used with notepad++ as well as Open Office , Libre Office etc. zip file is available from https://github.com/Shreeshrii/hindi-hunspell/blob/master/dict-hi_IN.zip Instruction for using Hunspell Hindi dictionary and Hindi spellchecker (old) http://raviratlami.blogspot.in/2012/10/blog-post.html In notepad++, use it with dspellcheck plugin. hi_IN.dic and hi_IN.aff files have to be copied to C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\Hunspell For those who are interested, the rules are defined in https://github.com/Shreeshrii/hindi-hunspell/blob/master/dict-hi_IN/hi_IN.aff

  Ubuntu-Linux has IBUS suitable to edit texts offline in various Indic fonts. Here are instructions to install and use it

  1. Install ibus-m17n from the Software Center.
  2. Add language(s) from the Settings - eg Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi (and 50+) - + choice of devanagari, itrans, IAST, HK, phonetic
  3. Log out, and Re-log in.
  4. Open any editor - eg gedit, Libre Office Writer.
  5. Choose Input from the drop-down language icon in Menu bar
  6. Press Control+Space, and type after choosing font, etc.