Decker

Flashcard deck converter.

Description

Decker converts both textual and illustrated flashcard decks from one format to another.

Input formats

• CSV (.csv)
• Anki (.apkg)

Output formats

• CSV (.csv)
• Lexilize (.lxf)

Installation

Install the DMD 2 compiler (using the MinGW setup option on Windows).

Build the executable with the following command lines :

sudo apt install libsqlite3-dev
dmd -m64 decker.d -L-ldl -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.a

Command line

decker [options] input_file_path output_file_path

Options

--front_title : front title
--back_title : back title
--front_language : front language
--back_language : back language
--input_format "format" : parses the card parameters with this format
--output_format "format" : exports the card parameters with this format
--media_folder : use this folder to read and write media files
--dump_folder : use this folder to write dump files
--trim : trim the card parameters
--verbose : show the processing messages

LXF export

Valid deck parameters :

• front_title
• back_title
• front_language
• back_language

Valid card parameters :

• front_word
• back_word
• front_transcription
• back_transcription
• front_sample
• back_sample
• front_comment
• back_comment
• front_gender
• back_gender
• front_image
• back_image
• image

Valid genders :

• n
• neuter
• neutral
• m
• male
• masculine
• f
• female
• feminine

Valid languages :

• english
• french
• german
• italian
• dutch
• swedish
• spanish
• danish
• portuguese
• norwegian
• hebrew
• japanese-kanji
• arabic
• finnish
• greek
• icelandic
• maltese
• turkish
• croatian
• chinese-traditional
• urdu
• hindi
• thai
• korean
• lithuanian
• polish
• hungarian
• estonian
• latvian
• sami
• faroese
• farsi
• russian
• chinese-simplified
• flemish
• irish-gaelic
• albanian
• romanian
• czech
• slovak
• slovenian
• yiddish
• serbian
• macedonian
• bulgarian
• ukrainian
• belarusian
• uzbek
• kazakh
• azerbaijani-cyrillic
• azerbaijani-arabic
• armenian
• georgian
• moldavian
• kyrgyz
• tajik
• turkmen
• mongolian
• mongolian-cyrillic
• pashto
• kurdish
• kashmiri
• sindhi
• tibetan
• nepali
• sanskrit
• marathi
• bengali
• assamese
• gujarati
• punjabi
• oriya
• malayalam
• kannada
• tamil
• telugu
• sinhalese
• burmese
• khmer
• lao
• vietnamese
• indonesian
• tagalog
• malay-roman
• malay-arabic
• amharic
• tigrinya
• galla
• somali
• swahili
• kinyarwanda
• rundi
• nyanja-chewa
• malagasy
• esperanto
• welsh
• basque
• catalan
• latin
• quenchua
• guarani
• aymara
• tatar
• uighur
• dzongkha
• javanese-roman
• sundanese-roman
• galician
• afrikaans
• breton
• inuktitut
• scottish-gaelic
• manx-gaelic
• irish-gaelic-dot-above
• tongan
• greek-polytonic
• greenlandic
• azerbaijani-roman
• japanese-kana
• bosnian
• chess
• history
• dates
• mathematics
• music
• physics
• geography
• medicine

Examples

decker --media_folder "SPANISH_VOCABULARY/" --dump_folder "SPANISH_VOCABULARY/" --verbose "spanish_vocabulary.apkg"

Write the Anki deck files into the output folder.

decker --input_format "<img src=\"{{front_image}}\">§{{front_word}}<br/><i>{{back_word}}</i>" --media_folder "SPANISH_VOCABULARY/" --dump_folder "SPANISH_VOCABULARY/" --trim --verbose "spanish_vocabulary.apkg"

Write the Anki deck files into the output folder, and parses the Anki card parameters.

decker --input_format "<img src=\"{{front_image}}\">§{{front_word}}<br/><i>{{back_word}}</i>" --media_folder "SPANISH_VOCABULARY/" --trim "spanish_vocabulary.apkg" "spanish_vocabulary.lxf"

Write the Anki deck files into the output folder, parses the Anki card parameters and generates a Lexilize deck.

decker --input_format "<img src=\"{{front_image}}\">§{{front_word}}<br/><i>{{back_word}}</i>" --output_format "{{front_word}}|{{back_word}}|{{front_image}}" --trim "spanish_vocabulary.apkg" "spanish_vocabulary.csv"

Write the Anki deck files into the output folder, parses the Anki card parameters and generates a CSV deck.

decker --input_format "{{front_word}}|{{back_word}}|{{front_image}}" --media_folder "SPANISH_VOCABULARY/" --trim "spanish_vocabulary.csv" "spanish_vocabulary.lxf"

Parses the CSV card parameters and generates a CSV deck.

Limitations

• Only JPEG images can be used in Lexilize decks.

Version

1.0

Author

Eric Pelzer (ecstatic.coder@gmail.com).

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.

See the LICENSE.md file for details.

Credits

The test files come from ankiweb.net.