diff --git a/misc/process_messages.py b/misc/process_messages.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import sys
+import os
+import optparse
+
+import pbs
+
+APP_LIST = ('common', 'converter', 'documents', 'document_comments',
+    'document_indexing', 'dynamic_search', 'folders', 'history',
+    'linking', 'main', 'metadata', 'navigation', 'ocr', 'permissions',
+    'project_setup', 'project_tools', 'smart_settings', 'sources',
+    'tags', 'user_management', 'web_theme', 'django_gpg', 'document_signatures',
+    'acls', 'installation', 'scheduler', 'checkouts')
+LANGUAGE_LIST = ('en', 'pt', 'pt_BR', 'ru', 'es', 'it', 'pl', 'de_DE', 'fr', 'nl_NL', 'bg')
+
+makemessages = pbs.Command('django-admin.py')
+makemessages = makemessages.bake('makemessages')
+
+compilemessages = pbs.Command('django-admin.py')
+compilemessages = compilemessages.bake('compilemessages')
+
+if hasattr(sys, 'real_prefix'):
+    # We are inside a virtual env
+    BASE_DIR = os.path.join(os.environ['VIRTUAL_ENV'], 'mayan')
+else:
+    BASE_DIR = os.getcwd()
+
+
+def process(command, app_list, language_list):
+    if command == makemessages:
+        print 'Making messages'
+    elif command == compilemessages:
+        print 'Compiling messages'
+
+    for app in app_list:
+        print 'Processing app: %s...' % app
+        app_path = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'apps', app)
+        os.chdir(app_path)
+        for lang in language_list:
+            print 'Doing language: %s' % lang
+            command(locale=lang)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = optparse.OptionParser()
+    parser.add_option('-m', '--make', help='create message sources file', dest='make', default=False, action='store_true')
+    parser.add_option('-c', '--compile', help='compile message files', dest='compile', default=False, action='store_true')
+    parser.add_option('-a', '--app', help='specify which app to process', dest='app', action='store', metavar='appname')
+    parser.add_option('-l', '--lang', help='specify which language to process', dest='lang', action='store', metavar='language')
+    (opts, args) = parser.parse_args()
+    
+    if not opts.make and not opts.compile:
+        parser.print_help()
+
+    if opts.app:
+        app_list = [opts.app]
+    else:
+        app_list = APP_LIST
+
+    if opts.lang:
+        language_list = [opts.lang]
+    else:
+        language_list = LANGUAGE_LIST
+
+    if opts.make:
+        process(makemessages, app_list, language_list)
+    elif opts.compile:
+        process(compilemessages, app_list, language_list)