/select-and-translate

Select any text, translate and send it to Windows notificitaion and system clipboard

Primary LanguageShell

Translate selected text and send it to windows notification center

Installation Guide

  1. Make sure you have PowerShell installed

    • You can check it, go to C:/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0 and search for powershell.exe

  2. Make sure you have windows sub system linux (wsl) installed

    • You can check it, go to C:/Windows/System32/ and search for wsl.exe, see installation guide if needed.

  3. To send translated text to notify you have to install BurntToast, should work fine just follow instructions. If some issues occures try to do this:

    • Dont forget "unblock" the zip file before extracting the contents.
    • Open powershell and run this command "Import-Module BurntToast"

  4. Download and unzip https://github.com/vzvz4/select-and-translate/releases/tag/0.0.2 or

$ git clone https://github.com/vzvz4/select-and-translate
  • run wsl.exe, go to the folder you just downloaded and copy "gclip", "pclip", "translator" and "notif" to /usr/local/bin/ directory
  • Step by step:
$ cd /mnt/c/'YOUR_PATH_TO_DOWNLOADS'/select-and-translate/tools/
$ cp * /usr/local/bin/

Usage Guide

Copy any text you want to translate and double click to run-en.vbs, notification with translated text should pop up.

Additions

  • Copy "run-*.vbs" file (for example run-en.vbs), instead of "en" in "lang = en" paste any language you want to translate the selected text.

  • Also you can bind execution of the tranlsation script to specific keys, i found this solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPcw-gDDVwo but it works a bit slow

  • Note that translated text copy to system clipboard so you can paste translation to where ever you want