Introduction

BasicCAT is an open source computer-aided translation tool, which aims at providing a simple and useful tool for translators. The name is BasicCAT, because of its simplicity and its programming language—Basic. Basic is easy to learn and everyone can build a suitable CAT tool based on BasicCAT’s source code.

It has the following features:

• Translation Memory
• Terminology Management
• Language Check
• Select words to get meanings
• Quickfill
• AutoCorrect
• Interactive Machine Translation
• Export Word for external review
• Export bilingual paragraph files
• Export to markdown with notes
• Merge and split segments freely
• Online Dictionaries Integration
• Support Machine Translation Services Provided by Google, Microsoft, etc.
• Pretranslate based on translation memory and machine translation
• Support common file formats: TXT, idml, xliff, gettext Po
• Support three translation standards: TMX, TBX and SRX
• Sharing translation memory and term online
• Version Control and Collaboration Using Git