Converting Traditional-Simplified

[prateeksha]

There are regular posts with 繁体字 on the forum and several people [myself included] are illiterate when it comes to reading it. Are there some tools or software program to convert traditional to simplified and the vice versa? I know there are several websites that can be found by googling. Are there any favorites?

PS: Please feel free to move/merge if the topic exists. I did run a search, though.

[Glenn]

MDBG. Select "Look up All Chinese Words in a Text" and then fro the pulldown "Inline / popup annotation". The default is set to simplified, so any traditional characters you paste in there should be converted to simplified.

[prateeksha]

Thank you so much Glenn.

Edit: On second thought, this is not what i exactly needed. This is giving a word-by-word conversion with meanings and pinyin and all. Is there something where the entire data could be entered and it gives the output in the same line/passage/essay format [same as the input]?

[Glenn]

Hmm... well, you can set it to "Show only Chinese inline - details in popup" and copy from the box where they're converted. If that still doesn't suit your purposes, I suppose you could try DimSum.

[Geiko]

Maybe something like this? http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/converter-tradsimp.html

[prateeksha]

Geiko, I just used it and this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

[外国赤佬]

If you're using Firefox or Chrome, just look for the 同文堂 add-on.

[imron]

http://translate.google.com

Set the source language as Chinese and the target language as Chinese - Simplified

[skylee]

This is also useful -> http://tdc.putonghuaonline.com/tools3.html

Some people might also find tools1 and tools2 useful.