AGTHC (AGTH ¹⁾ Companion) is a unified frontend for various Japanese translators, transliterators, dictionaries and part-of-speech taggers. Since AGTH has no problems running under GNU/Linux with Wine, this script can be considered as a free alternative to ATLAS. You don't really need AGTH to use this program, it's just AGTHC can work together with it.

You can grab the latest release here.

• Translation via Google Translate, Honyaku, So-net, Excite, FreeTranslation, OCN, Babel Fish.
• Transliteration via Google Translate, kakasi.
• Word-by-word dictionary look-up ²⁾ via WWWJDIC (and mirrors).
• POST via MeCab
• Support for proxies (so you can torify the connections, for instance).
• Clipboard listening.
• Traffic throttling.
• Flexible UI.
• Extensible modules.

• Support for EDICT dictionary files as an offline alternative to WWWJDIC.
• Support for JUMAN
• Simple replace & regex replace on input text.
• Global hotkeys.
• Specific settings per module.

• Python (2.6) ³⁾
• PyQt4

• kakasi (man page here)
• MeCab and mecab-python
• AGTH
• ATLAS along with atlaspipe
• internet connection

Ordinarily, once you get tor running, these proxy settings should do the job

Host: localhost
Port: 8118
Connection: HTTP

• Albeit the program runs swiftly under GNU/Linux, it is known to hang under Windows. This is probably a bug related to thread PyQt4's thread handling under Windows. Well, who cares