Screen Translator is an open source tool which can translate any English language text on your screen (even if it's within an image) to one of 54 other languages.
We launched Screen Translator's setup program, and were asked which program components we'd like to install. Unfortunately, these were listed in Cyrillic: not the most impressive start for a translation program. We selected everything and Screen Translator was installed with no other problems.
Once running, you can initiate a screen capture with a customisable hotkey, or by right-clicking Screen Translator's system tray icon and selecting 'Capture'. Click and drag the mouse to draw a rectangle around your source text, it's speedily translated to your language of choice, and displayed in a window. You can then simply read this text, or press another customisable hotkey to copy it to the clipboard.
- Google Translate by Google, Inc. Is the well-known translation service and mobile app that helps users translate words and texts between various languages. Unfortunately, Google Translate for Mac is not available as a stand-alone app.
- You can translate text, handwriting, photos, and speech in over 100 languages with the Google Translate app. You can also use Translate on the web. To translate text, speech, and websites in more than 100 languages, go to Google Translate page.
- Microsoft Translator enables you to translate text and speech, have translated conversations, and even download AI-powered language packs to use offline.
One very obvious limitation here is that Screen Translator only supports English as a source language (you can't translate from another language to English). The Settings dialog does provide an option to choose the 'Recognition language', though; it only lists English right now, but presumably that means other languages will be supported soon.
Another irritation is that you can only choose source languages by their two character ISO 639-1 codes, which aren't even sorted into alphabetical order. And so instead of the full name of the country, or language, you're trying to figure out what codes like IS, HR and TL represent. (As ever, Wikipedia reveals all.)
Accessibility for Instructional Design Google Translate is now a form of augmented reality and is adapted for educational purposes. This application provides users with tools to translate between languages and they now include an image option; users take a photograph of a sign, piece of paper, or other form of written text and receive a translation in the language of their choice.
Once we've set everything up, though, everything worked well. Screen Translator uses Tesseract to power its character recognition, and Google Translate to carry out the translations, and we found the results to be accurate and reliable.
Version 1.2.3:
Windows folks had TortoiseSVN, and Linux folks wouldn’t be caught dead using anything other than command line tools (or, git, for that matter). Svn clients for mac high sierra. So, everybody was happy but us Mac folks.A program called “Versions” has been available for a while, but it, sadly, epitomizes the style over substance sin that is so prevalent on the Mac.
- Fixed possible crash.
- Added version information and some error messages.
Verdict:
Best Translator For Mac
Screen Translator provides an easy and reliable way to translate from English to other languages. It desperately needs to support other source languages, though, and the interface also needs some work.