<p align="center"> <h1 align="center">OCR Translator</h1> <p align="center"><i>Convert captured images into text and then translate that text.</i></p> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/Azornes/ocrTranslator/releases"> <img alt="Downloads" src="https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/Azornes/ocrTranslator/latest/total?label=Downloads&style=flat-square"> </a> <a href="https://visitorbadge.io/status?path=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAzornes%2FocrTranslator"><img src="https://api.visitorbadge.io/api/combined?path=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAzornes%2FocrTranslator&countColor=%2337d67a&style=flat-square&labelStyle=none" /></a> <img alt="python 3.9" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.9-3776AB?logo=Python&logoColor=FFFFFF&style=flat-square"> </a> </p>

---

With this app, you can select your preferred OCR and translation services. After clicking on START or using the keyboard shortcut Alt+Win+T, the program will launch and you can choose the area of the screen to scan for text using OCR. If you have selected a translation service, the text will then be automatically translated.

preview:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20650591/233107070-f9a14ed8-5c77-4947-8fa5-8d1c86d4a04f.mp4

🔥 Features

• Desktop application with a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) provided by customtkinter.
• Ability to select preferred OCR and translation services.
• Option to run the program using either the START button or the keyboard shortcut (Alt+Win+T or bound from options).
• Capability to choose the area of the screen to scan for text using OCR and save the position (for example, when watching a movie and the subtitles always appear in one spot, so you don't have to select the text area again).
• Automatic translation of the captured text if a translation service has been selected.
• Ability to capture subtitles from movies or games by selecting the corresponding area of the screen and displaying the translated text next to them.
• Chat with chatGPT or edgeGPT.
• Ability to translate from the clipboard or manually entered text (similar to a typical translation app).
• Save all selected options and settings to a file and load them when the program is launched.

Desktop App

Download the desktop app here Tested only on Windows 10.

---

Dependency

1. Python 3.9. (If you want run from source)
2. (optional) Capture2Text.
3. (optional) Tesseract.
4. (optional) Google api generate a service_account_creds.json. Then, put file into the ocrTranslate/configs directory.

<details> <summary>

5. (optional) ChatGPT

Source

</summary>

Configuration

1. Create account on OpenAI's ChatGPT
2. Save your email and password

Authentication method: (Choose 1 and paste to app settings)

- Email/Password

Currently broken for free users. Do export PUID="..." if you have a plus account. The PUID is a cookie named _puid Not supported for Google/Microsoft accounts.

- Access token

https://chat.openai.com/api/auth/session

</details> <details> <summary>

6. (optional) EdgeGPT

Source

</summary> <details> <summary>

Checking access (Required)

</summary>

• Install the latest version of Microsoft Edge
• Alternatively, you can use any browser and set the user-agent to look like you're using Edge (e.g., Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/111.0.1661.51). You can do this easily with an extension like "User-Agent Switcher and Manager" for Chrome and Firefox.
• Open bing.com/chat
• If you see a chat feature, you are good to go

</details> <details> <summary>

Getting authentication (Required)

</summary>

• Install the cookie editor extension for Chrome or Firefox
• Go to bing.com
• Open the extension
• Click "Export" on the bottom right, then "Export as JSON" (This saves your cookies to clipboard)
• Paste your cookies into a file cookies.json
• Paste your file cookies.json to ocrTranslate/configs/

</details> </details>

---

📊 Tables with information

<details> <summary>

Supported OCR Services

</summary>

| ID | OCR | Internet/Local | Status | |-----|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------|--------| | 1 | Google Vision Api | Internet | stable | | 2 | Google Vision Free Demo | Internet | stable | | 3 | Baidu Api | Internet | stable | | 4 | Windows OCR | Local | stable | | 5 | Capture2Text | Local | stable | | 6 | Tesseract | Local | stable | | 7 | RapidOCR | Local | stable |

</details> <details> <summary>

Supported Translation Services

Source

</summary>

| ID | Translator | Number of Supported Languages | Advantage | Service | Status | |-----|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------| | 1 | Niutrans | 302 | support the most languages in the world | Northeastern University / Niutrans, China | / | | 2 | Alibaba | 221 | support most languages, support professional field | Alibaba, China | stable | | 3 | Baidu | 201 | support most languages, support professional field, support Classical Chinese | Baidu, China | stable | | 4 | Iciba | 187 | support the most languages in the world | Kingsoft / Xiaomi, China | stable | | 5 | MyMemory | 151 | support the most languages in the world, good at Creole English, Creole French | Translated, Italy | stable | | 6 | Iflytek | 140 | support the most languages in the world | Iflytek, China | / | | 7 | Google | 134 | support more languages in the world | Google, America | stable(offline in China inland) | | 8 | VolcEngine | 122 | support more languages in the world, support professional field | ByteDance, China | / | | 9 | [Lingvanex](https