Khmer dictionary parser

A simple script to parse a dictionary file in MS Word format and produce an Excel spreadsheet with structured data

Instructions

• Install Python 3
• Install the lxml and html5lib modules for Python 3
  • On Ubuntu Linux, run sudo apt intall python3-lxml python3-html5lib
• Get the input files in .mht format (in Word, save as "Single File Web Page (*.mht)")
• Put the input files in their own folder (for these instructions, let's say the folder is called "Dictionary")
• Run python3 htmlconvert.py Dictionary/*.mht
  • This produces a .txt file for each .mht file
• Run python3 convert.py Dictionary/*.txt
  • This produces a .csv file and a .sfm file for each .txt file
• Import the .csv files into Excel, or whatever else you need done with them
• Import the .sfm files into FieldWorks