diff --git a/lib/ktrans/README b/lib/ktrans/README
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+#
+# The following are a set of tools to obtain and process dictionaries from the SKK project in order to use them with ktrans(1).
+#
+# grabskkdicts pulls the skk kana-kanji conversion dictionaries from the skk-dev/dict repo.
+# skk2ktrans takes an skk dictionary and converts it into a kanji jisho suitable to be used with ktrans(1).
+#
+# You can fetch and convert all the dictionaries by running this file.
+#
+
+grabskkdicts
+for(d in skkdicts/SKK-JISYO.*)
+	<$d skk2ktrans >$d.jisho
diff --git a/lib/ktrans/grabskkdicts b/lib/ktrans/grabskkdicts
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+#!/bin/rc
+git/clone https://github.com/skk-dev/dict skkdicts
diff --git a/lib/ktrans/skk2ktrans b/lib/ktrans/skk2ktrans
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+#!/bin/rc
+tcs -sf jis | awk '$1 !~ /;;/ {gsub("(^\/|\/$)", "", $2); gsub(" ", "	"); gsub("\/", " ", $2);} {print}'