Screen OCR

Cross-platform (MacOS Windows Linux) screen translation app created with Electron.

Created for personal use.

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'tesseract.js' for OCR.

'ChatGPT' for translation.

It doesn't automatically mark up the area of text.

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Installation

git clone https://github.com/potion2/screenocr
cd screenocr
npm install

OCR traineddata

• Download it in here and move it to project root.

OpenAI API key

• Obtain OpenAI api-key from OpenAI

• Register 'OPENAI_API_KEY' env as it is good for security.

  • Windows(not tested on windows)

    advanced system setting -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> User Variables / New

    SET OPENAI_API_KEY='sk-...'

  • MacOS(zsh terminal)

    $ open ~/.zshrc

    and add

    export OPENAI_API_KEY='sk-...'

  • Or you can use 'api-key' directly in source code if you want

Run

npx electron-forge start

Packaging

npx electron-forge package