How to install ScreenTranslator 2.0.0 Ubuntu 16.04 & Higher

   This software allows to translate any text on screen. Basically it is a combination of screen capture, OCR and translation tools.

ScreenTranslator 2.0.0 Changelog:

• Added a version for linux.
• Added support for multiple monitors.
• Added ability of recognition without translation.
• Added ability to recapture from old image.
• Added ability to recapture without closing capture window.
• Added ability to re-recognize other language.
• Added ability to display intermediate result when error occured.
• Added support for different translation services.
• Added ability to copy image to clipboard.
• Added ability to edit recognized text.
• Added ability to automatically correct common recognition mistakes.
• Added ability to use a proxy.
• Added ability to swap translation and recognition languages.
• Updated icons.
• Show progress on icon.
• Added ability to automatically update.

Usage

1. Press capture hotkey.
2. Select region on screen.
3. Get translation of recognized text.

Features

• Many OCR languages (can be modified dynamically)
• Global hotkeys for main actions
• Copy last translation to clipboard
• Repeat last translation
• Show result in 2 ways (widget or tray baloon)
• Preprocess (scale) recognizeable image
• Interface languages (ru, eng)

Installation instructions:

   The GetDeb repository contains the latest packages of ScreenTranslator, available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04 and derivatives.

Opening terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and running the command:

Ubuntu 16.04 xenial

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list' $ wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add - $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install screentranslator

Ubuntu 16.10 yakkety

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu yakkety-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list' $ wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add - $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install screentranslator

Ubuntu 17.04 zesty

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu zesty-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list' $ wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add - $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install screentranslator

(Optional) To remove ScreenTranslator, use command:

$ sudo apt-get remove screentranslator $ sudo apt-get autoremove

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