New version of free CAT-software OmegaT released

The OmegaT Project recently released a new stable version of its CAT-Tool OmegaT. Version 1.4.5.04 has been published August, 11th and is available at the SourceForge.net Project Site.

OmegaT is a free translation memory application written in Java and distributed under the Gnu Public License (GPL) allowing free use even for commercial users. Intended for professional translators OmegaT provides a high performance Java based Computer Assisted Translation tool featuring Fuzzy Matching, translation memory support, keyword search, glossary term identification, and translation leveraging into updated projects.

The software features:

- Fuzzy matching
- Match propagation
- Simultaneous processing of multiple-file projects
- Simultaneous use of multiple translation memories
- External glossaries
- Document file formats: plain text, HTML, OpenOffice.org 1.0/StarOffice 6.0
- Unicode (UTF-8) support: can be used with non-Latin alphabets
- Compatible with other translation memory applications (TMX Level 1)

Samuel Murray-Smit, tester for the OmegaT team has kindly provided an updated version of his introductory article on OmegaT which is available in the article section.

More information: OmegaT Website, SourceForge OmegaT Project Site