Game2Text (With Chinese Support)

Game2Text is an all-in-one application that helps you learn languages from the games you play.

This repo is a fork of Game2Text support for recognizing traditional and simplified Chinese characters added, plus a few extra tweaks.

Platforms

Windows 10
Mac OSX Mojave, Catalina

Text Extraction Modes

Classic OCR with Tesseract or OCR Space.
OCR-assisted game script matching
Text hooking (for Visual Novels) (untested for Chinese)
Clipboard to Game2Text

Features

Dictionary lookup with browser dictionaries like Yomichan and Rikaichan
Translation tools including DeepL, Papago, and Google Translate.
Create game flashcards with screenshot and game audio via Anki and AnkiConnect

Download

Binaries are released directly through this github, NOT the official Game2Text website.

User Guide

Read User Guide

FAQ

Read FAQ

Development

Create a venv and activate it. Python 3.7 is specifically needed for a few packages that aren't on later versions yet.

virtualenv venv --python=python3.7
source venv/bin/activate

Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python game2text.py

Extra Packages for Windows Development

Install C++ Build Tools
Install pyaudio_portaudio through wheel. This package includes as_loopback as an option to record system audio through Windows WASAPI.

pip uninstall pyaudio
pip install https://github.com/intxcc/pyaudio_portaudio/releases/download/1.1.1/PyAudio-0.2.11-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl

Install the wexpect library for running the text hooker program.

pip install wexpect==4.0.0

Extra Packages for Linux Development

Install Tesseract by following the installation instructions here.

Distribution

Unzip resources/sudachidict_small.zip into the same directory.

Windows:

build.bat

Mac:

sh build.sh

Temporary fix for all read/write operations using os.path on Mac builds with pyinstaller: create a wrapper file that runs the Game2Text executable inside the package

Acknowledgement

Matthew Chan for Game2Text

Tools

Tool	Description	Version
Python Eel	Electron-like Library for Python	0.14.0
Tesseract	OCR Tool	4.1.1
AnkiConnect	Anki Remote API Extension	/
SudachiPy	Japanese Morphological Analyzer	0.5.2
Textractor	Texthooker	4.16.1
FFmpeg	Audio Converter	4.4

Resources

Jun Mako (Game Scripts)

Unboxious (Game Scripts)

agloo/Game2Text