ScreenTranslator/README.md

Screen Translator

Introduction

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

Usage

1. Press capture hotkey.
2. Select region on screen.
3. Get translation of recognized text.

Features

• 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

• Works only on primary screen
• Can not capture some dynamic web-pages
• Not very precise OCR

Used software

• see Qt 5
• see Tesseract
• see Leptonica (Tesseract dependency)
• Google Translate