MCLC: characters to pinyin software?

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: fiona sze-lorrain (dphf.lorrain at orange.fr)
Subject: characters to pinyin software?
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Dear MCLC listers,

A friend of mine, who is a non-native Chinese speaker, is looking for
a software program to map a text from Chinese characters to pinyin.

Can someone kindly send me some suggestions re: the possibility of
such software programs?  (something user-friendly)

Thank you.  Fiona Sze-Lorrain