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Extract EPWING entries

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Is there a way to extract programmately all entries of an EPWING dictionary separately?

I know that EPWINGtoAnki does something like this and I've looked to the source-code (btw thanks to cb for releasing it as an open-source software) but my programming ability is not so good so I'm a little lost here.

I've seen that EPWINGtoAnki uses an external library (eblib if I remember right) and it uses an external executable to do the work. Maybe if I keep trying I'll come to understand how to do it, but if you have some suggestion how to do it this would be much appreciated!

EDIT:

I did it! I found this piece of software called DDWin (the download link seems broken but it works if you change the last \ to / )

Unfortunately it doesn't support many EPWING dictionaries, for example it doesn't work with the 明鏡 dictionary, but it works for 大辞林.

Here is an EPWING to PDIC conversion tool. If you download it, you'll find a readme where it explains how to use DDWin in order to convert an EPWING into a txt file.
Edited: 2016-02-28, 11:39 am
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