Simple script to show some text translation in a desktop notification.

• Retrieve the text to translate from the clipboard or extract it from a screenshot (a region of the screen captured by the user) with OCR.

• The translations are retrieved with translate-shell, it uses Google Translate so an Internet connection is required.

• The target language can be specified as a parameter, else the script uses the default locale.

• Shortcuts can be registered in ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc.

  • Retrieve the text to translate from the clipboard, translate it and show the translation in a desktop notification:

        super + z
        translate-notify -l fr -c
    

  • Ask the user to capture a region of the screen with the mouse, extract the text, translate it and show the translation in a desktop notification:

        @super + x
        translate-notify -l fr -s
    

Usage: translate-notify.sh [-h] [-l TARGET_LANGUAGE] [-cs] [-t TEXT_TO_TRANSLATE]

Where:
  -h      Help.
  -l      Target language. If not speficied then the default locale will be used.
  -c      Retrieve the text to translate from the clipboard.
  -s      Retrieve the text to translate using OCR on a region of the screen captured by the user.
  -t      Text to translate.
  
Dependencies:
  xmlstarlet is required to escape HTML formatting.
  xdotool, tesseract-ocr, imagemagick and maim are required to extract the text to translate from a screenshot.