Inspiration
Got inspired by various translator apps, where you select a text and it translates it. I wanted to do something for translating text inside images without having to copy it manually.
What it does
The user selects a language that he wants to translate and a language that he wants to translate to. He then takes a screenshot of the text and gets back a translation along with the original text. User can select and copy the translation.
How we built it
Using python. PySimpleGUI for the GUI, pyautogui for taking the screenshot, pytesseract for getting a text from the image, deep_translator for translation of text.
Challenges we ran into
Making the screenshot functionality was the hardest part. I tried various methods before I managed to get to my method.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The screenshot because it required me to think outside the box a little bit.
What we learned
Making a GUI, how to interact with the user screen, problems of integration across different OS's.
What's next for LetterTranslettor
Getting something better than pytesseract for getting text from image; right now if the text is anything but black on white then the software gets buggy and is unable to read the text.
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