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/www.facebook.com/pages/w/102916473083757">single-click computer online/offline dictionary and translation software, as well as an information source utility program. The developer of this software is Babylon Ltd., a
public company.
History
The concept of Babylon began in 1995 with Amnon Ovadia who had the idea of creating an English-Hebrew dictionary that did not interrupt the reading process. The company was founded in 1997 and filed a patent for its innovative translation approach that same year. The year after its launch date in 1998, the company had 2 million users, mostly in Germany and Brazil, growing from 420,000 to 2.5 million users over that year. By 2000, the company had over 4 million users and the program was ranked among the most popular downloads by ZDnet France, AOL Germany, and Tucows, among others.
Features
When a user clicks on text with the right mouse button or combination of the right mouse and another key, the Babylon window appears with a translation and definition of the clicked word. It is a tool used for translation and currency conversion, as well as for obtaining other contextual information. Babylon has a patented OCR technology and a single-click activation that works in any Windows program, such as Word, Outlook, Excel, Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader. When activated, Babylon opens a small popup window that displays the translation.
Babylon 8, the latest version of Babylon, provides full text, full Web page and full document translation in 33 languages and supports integration with Microsoft Office speller. Babylon 8 enables the translation of virtually any document (Microsoft Word documents, PDF files, plain text files, etc.).