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
2. pop up a translation block over the selection , then fade out in 5 seconds
3. support PDF reading on chrome
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 git@github.com: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