This program captures a part of the screen, reads the text from the captured image than translates and prints it to a target language. Currently from German to English, because I'm trying to learn German. You can easily change the "from" and "to" languages from the lines "60" and "98" in "visual_translation.py".
I was thinking about learning languages, about the languages I know, and suddenly I remembered how I learned English. Not at school, of course. I learned it by playing games and using Translate. Memorising all the unknown words, understanding the sentence structures and grammar rules by myself, etc. I thought I could recreate the learning process by playing the games with another language with a faster, automated learning process and here we are with this programme.
(Screenshots are from the game "King's Bounty: The Legend", one of my favourite games.)
First, you've got to be in a screen where there is text to be screenshot of.
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Second, when you start the program, it captures a screenshot of the screen.
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Third, you can select 2 green dots on the screenshot. These 2 green dots select the area between them and create a rectangle.
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Fourth, you press enter, a window pops up with the text inside the rectangle you selected. You can adjust the captured text within this menu if wrong.
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Fifth, you can press the button "Translate" and enjoy the translated text.
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