Gjiten is a free software dictionary application developed for Linux operating systems, using the GNOME development libraries. It primarily functions as a Japanese–English dictionary tool meant to search EDICT dictionary files, but it has other features such as hand-drawn kanji recognition. It was first published on December 25, 1999. Its current release is v2.6, available since October 28, 2006. The source code is downloadable from the developers' website.