# SIL Converters

> This package provides tools through which you can change the encoding, font, and/or script of text in Microsoft Word and other Office documents, OpenOffice and LibreOffice documents, XML documents, Paratext projects and other SFM text and lexicon documents. It also installs a system-wide repository to manage your encoding converters and transliterators (TECkit, CC, IC, Perl, or Python based, as well as support for adding custom transduction engines).

- **Slug:** `sil-converters`
- **Organization:** SIL
- **Website:** https://software.sil.org/silconverters/
- **HTML page:** https://www.tools.bible/tools/sil-converters
- **Markdown page:** https://www.tools.bible/tools/sil-converters.md

## Classification

- **Translation stages:** Bible Publishing, Scripture Engagement
- **Medium:** Written
- **Pricing:** Free (Unrestricted)
- **Release status:** Full
- **Integrations:** FieldWorks, Paratext
- **Localization:** English
- **Translation type:** Any
- **License:** MIT
- Developer expertise needed
- Linguistic expertise needed
- Offline capable

## Description

This package provides tools through which you can change the encoding, font, and/or script of text in Microsoft Word and other Office documents, OpenOffice and LibreOffice documents, XML documents, and SFM text and lexicon documents. It also installs a system-wide repository to manage your encoding converters and transliterators ([TECkit](https://software.sil.org/teckit), [CC](https://software.sil.org/cc), [ICU](https://icu.unicode.org/), Perl, or Python based, as well as support for adding custom transduction engines).

For developers, it provides a simple COM interface to select and use a converter from the repository. It is easy to use from VBA, C++, C\#, Perl, Python or any .NET/COM enabled language.

The core EncConverters assembly is fully integrated with [FLEx (FieldWorks Language Explorer)](https://software.sil.org/fieldworks/), [Speech Analyzer](https://software.sil.org/speech-analyzer), [Phonology Assistant](https://software.sil.org/phonologyassistant/), [Adapt It](http://www.adapt-it.org/) and [OneStory Editor](https://software.sil.org/onestoryeditor/) software. It provides the same system-wide registry of installed and available encoding converters for all of these user programs. Additionally the package includes some extra utilities such as a clipboard converter for manipulating text between cut and paste operations.

The  latest version will enable you to use the Bing or DeepL translation tools to produce a translation draft of a text, for example a back translation in Paratext.

Watch a webinar that gives and overview of how you can use it: [https://vimeo.com/849728649](https://vimeo.com/849728649)

## Screenshots

![SIL Converters screenshot](https://www.tools.bible/api/media/file/silconv.jpg)

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