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Screen Translator
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Introduction
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This software allows you to translate any text on screen.
Basically it is a combination of screen capture, OCR and translation tools.

Installation
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**Windows**: download and run the installer from [github releases](https://github.com/OneMoreGres/ScreenTranslator/releases) page.

**Linux**: install dependencies and build from source (edit .pro, qmake && make).
Also download [data files](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/tree/3.04.00) for tesseract.

**OS X**: currently not supported.

Usage
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1. Run program (note that it doesn't have main window).
2. Press capture hotkey.
3. Select region on screen.
4. Get translation of recognized text.

Features
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* Many OCR languages (can be modified dynamically)
* Global hotkeys for main actions
* Copy last translation to clipboard
* Repeat last translation
* Show result in 2 ways (widget or tray baloon)
* Preprocess (scale) recognizeable image
* Interface languages (ru, eng)


Limitations
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* Works only on primary screen
* Can not capture some dynamic web-pages
* Not very precise OCR
* Not all functions are cross-platform (may be bugged on some systems)

Dependencies
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* see [Qt 5](http://qt-project.org/)
* see [Tesseract](https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/)
* see [Leptonica](http://leptonica.com/)
* several online translation services