[Simple Tutorial] How to Import Any Book (e.g., Traditional Chinese Medicine Classics) into an Input Method?

🛠 Tools and Programming YiKeyTong Input Method
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Video Tutorials

Convert pdf, epub and other formats books to txt

Skip this step if it is already txt

Convert txt to word list

Rimetool server (already available) - https://rimetool.beginner.center/

Personal deployment:

pip install rimetool
rimetool web
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Book Entry Process
:warning:Click here first to check if someone else has already done this book

If the dictionary for this book has not been made, you can start

  1. Find the desired book in epub or pdf format (non-scanned version) online and download it
  2. Click to log in to the conversion website (registration required to use), convert epub or pdf books to txt format
  3. Open the txt file and keep the main content, click here to upload the txt to the Yijiantong Dictionary Conversion Tool, select simple Chinese to generate the file (Need help? Click here for tutorial)
  4. Check and roughly edit the yaml file, rename the compressed package (BookName-AuthorName), click here to upload

Then you can click here to see the dictionary you just uploaded!

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20251016 Update

  1. Check the progress of the Yijiantong (Medical Key Pass) dictionary https://www.kdocs.cn/wo/sl/v13U2MJz and decide which books to add.

  2. Search online and download books in epub, txt, or pdf formats (non-scanned versions), such as the Z-library mirror site https://zlib.wwwnav.com/.

  3. Log in to the format conversion website https://libra.beginner.center/, upload the books, and convert epub or pdf books to txt format.

  4. Open the txt file, remove the headers and footers, keep the main text, and upload the txt to the Yijiantong dictionary conversion tool https://rimetool.beginner.center/. Select simple Chinese to generate the file.

  5. Review and roughly edit the yaml file, then upload the book download link to the form WPS表单.

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