aayc/screenshot-translation-to-english

I'm learning Chinese and sometimes I just need to figure out what that bit says.

Translate a screenshot to English

Getting started: it's a hack.

Get the code

Clone the repository and build it into an executable (it's a one-file executable so you can move it whereever you'd like after building it)

git clone https://github.com/aayc/screenshot-translation-to-english.git
cd screenshot-translation-to-english
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
sh build.sh
dist/screenshot-translator ~/EXAMPLE_IMAGE.png --src chi_tra # for chinese

Automator

This program doesn't take the screenshots for you. Mac Automator does, though. Set something up like this:

See my blog post on setup

Running this app will take a screenshot and pipe it into screenshot-translator, then display it in an alert box. Enjoy!