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Highlight Translator
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Highlight Translator can help you translate the words quickly and accurately. By only highlighting, copying, or screenshoting the content you want to translate anywhere on your computer (ex. PDF, PPT, WORD etc.), the translated results will then be automatically displayed before you.
Translation resource: Google Translate and Cambridge dictionary
OCR technology: Tesseract
Virtual Desktop Control DLL: Ciantic/VirtualDesktopAccessor Github
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How To Use
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Step 1. Download the software in the Executable File
Step 2. Decompress the Zip file and Execute the file
Find the HighlightTranslator.exe in the folder and then double click
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Highlight Features
Methods of Getting Source Texts
- Highlight/Selected
- Screenshot (keyboard shortcut:
Windows + Shift + S) - Copy
Automatically Appear Window
The window will be automatically appear when you copy/highlight/screenshot some content and then automatically be hidden after a few seconds if you don't use it.
Automatically Switch to Current Virtual Desktop
You can use it on different virtual desktop without manually switch by yourself, it will automatic switch to current virtual desktop
Automatically Switch between Languages
When the language of input texts is the same as the target language, source language and target language will be automatically switched to each other.
Text to Speak
It can speak the input sentences or the translated results, and also can be automatic.
It will be helpful to learning languages
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Features
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Methods of getting your source texts
- Highlight/Selected (This method does not support Microsoft Office, but you can copy the words/sentences instead)
- Screenshot (Only English and Chinese supported currently, but feel free to add new languages by yourself)
Keyboard Shortcut:
Windows + Shift + S - Copy
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Automatically Appear Window
The window will be automatically appear when you copy/highlight/screenshot some content and then automatically be hidden after a few seconds if you don't use it.
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Cancel disappearance
If you don't want the window to automatically disappear, you can stop it by moving your mouse on the window or just clicking the checkbox on the top
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Early Disappear
If you want the window disappear early, you can move your mouse on the window first and then click any where out of the window
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Automatically Switch to Current Virtual Desktop
You can use it on different virtual desktop without manually switch by yourself, it will automatic switch to current virtual desktop.
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Automatically Switch between Languages
If the language of input texts is the same as the target language, source language and target language will be automatically switched to each other.
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Text to Speech
It can speak the input sentences or the translated results, and also can be automatic.
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Checkbox "input"
Display InputBox and Translate Button.
You can type the texts in InputBox and then press Enter or click the Translate Button to get the translation result.
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Checkbox "top"
If the checkbox is checked, the window will always be kept on top.
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Checkbox "select"
When you highlight some content, the translation will be automatically displayed.
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Setting Interface
You can set the config on the menu
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Change Dictionary
Only Google and Cambridge Dictionary supported for now. For Cambridge Dictionary, only "English to Chinese" supported
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Switch Language Button
It can switch between source and target languages
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Google Translate API
This API can get the translation result from Google Translate
How to use
import GoogleTranslate as gt
print(gt.get_translate("good", "en","zh-TW"))
Parameters
- inputtext: The text that you want to translate
- sourcelanguage: The language of the input text language
- targetlanguage: The language of the output result language
You can refer to
language.txtfor all the languages supported.
Return
- result: The most common result
- allresult: All of the results
- detect_language: Detecting the language of the input text
- revise: Suggestion when the text is seemingly misspelled
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Config.json
You can adjust these parameters in Setting Interface.
{
"source_language":"Detect language",
"target_language":"Chinese (Traditional)",
"appear_time":6,
"dynamic_adjust_appear_time":1,
"auto_speak_length_limit":15,
"font":"Arial",
"font_size":11,
"audio_volume":0.95,
"number_of_terms":5,
"auto_switch_language":1,
"auto_change_dictionary":0,
"restructure_sentences":1,
"inputbox_color":"#F2D8B3",
"resultbox_color":"#FDF0C4",
"copycheck":0.3,
"doubleclickcheck":0.5,
"selectcheck":0.3
}
- source_language: Default source language
- target_language: Default target language
- appear_time: The window will be automatically appear when you copy/highlight/screenshot some content and then automatically be hidden after a few seconds.
- dynamic_adjust_appear_time: The time of Window automatic appearance will be extended according to the length of input text(0 will close this feature, if >0, every three words will extend
dynamic_adjust_appear_timeseconds) - auto_speak_length_limit: When the input length is less than the limit, the automatic speaking function will be triggered
- font
- font_size
- audio_volume: Speaking volume (0~1)
- auto_switch_language: Enable the source and target languages to be swtiched automatically (0 or 1)
- number_of_terms: Control the number of displayed translation results (terms) (>0)
- auto_change_dictionary: When the input is a word, the dictionary will be automaticlly switched to cambridge dictionary (0 or 1)
- restructure_sentences: It will restructure your input sentences (0 or 1)
- inputbox_color: The background color of input box
- resultbox_color: The background color of result box
- copycheck: Check clipboard frequency (sec)
- doubleclick: the time between the two clicks that will make them viewed as a "doublecklick" (sec)
- select: The time of the press to make the press viewed as a "long press" (sec)
How To Install
pip install -r requirements.txt
python Highlight_Translator.py
Requirement
python 3.6
pyinstaller == 4.1
Pillow >= 8.2.0
pynput == 1.6
pyautogui == 0.9
pytesseract == 0.3
pywin32 == 227
requests >= 2.24.0
beautifulsoup4 >= 4.9.3
numpy
pygame
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