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INTRODUCTION

a chrome plugin to translate, no advertisement

USAGE

  1. select a piece of text with mouse, then right click, select an option from the menu 20240610-070608
  2. pop up a translation block over the selection , then fade out in 5 seconds 20240610-070643
  3. support PDF reading on chrome 20240609-150613
  4. shortcut to trigger translation
  • Ctrl + Shift + Y, translate English to Chinese
  • Ctrl + Shift + U, translate Chinese to English
  • Ctrl + Shift + H, show english explaination

PREREQUISITES

  • Python3
  • Redis
  • Flask

INSTALL

1. chrome-plugin install

please see Reference

2. Web backend setup

  1. install redis, on Ubuntu

    sudo apt install redis

  2. download english thesaurus, and cache thesaurus to redis

    git clone [email protected]:zaibacu/thesaurus.git thesaurus
# upload to reids 
python3 upload_thesaurus_to_redis.py

  3. add environment variable, change your baidu api information

    vim ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc

      export BAIDU_FANYI_APPID="xxxx"
  export BAIDU_FANYI_PASSWD="xxxx"
  export BAIDU_FANYI_SALT="xxxx"

    see more baidu fanyi api documentation

  4. set up flask

    pip3 install pyttsx3
pip3 install flask
pip3 install flask-cores
pip3 install inflect
cd flask-background
flask --app chrome-backend.py run