Overseleser 1.30

(Oversette + leser)

This is a small GUI program to read books in foreign languages and to get interactive translations from Google Translate. I made it for my own use.

Dependencies:

pyqt5
googletrans==4.0.0-rc1
beautifulsoup4
EbookLib
pdfminer.six
python-docx
pyaudio
gtts
playsound==1.2.2

What it can:

• Open files and display them as raw text, supported formats:
  • .txt, encoding: UTF-8
  • .epub
  • .pdf (beware: some pdfs are too heavy or contain images instead of OCR)
  • .docx
• Save currently opened file, chosen language, cursor position and font size
• Increase and decrease font size
• Convert supported formats to .txt and store in "books" folder
• Read words and sentences aloud
• You may choose source language out of ~ 15 languages
• Destination language will be most probably English
• There is a note area where you can write your notes - they get saved with the rest
• You can create automatic dictionaries and add your words
• The dictionary can be viewed in a separate window or printed as txt file

• You may copy selected text and paste it anywhere you want
• There are hotkeys!

What it can't:

• run under MacOS. I hate macs, there will be no support ever
• open .djvu and .pdf with pics. I would have to do OCR for that...
• change font family (I was too lazy to find out how to add custom fonts, but I may do so in future)
• open .doc (who the f*ck uses .doc nowadays? Oh, and .rtf too, convert them yourselves)

Will there ever be an .exe version?

I dunno, I'm too lazy

Updates

v.1.30 - added gTTS voiceover

v.1.20 - added dictionaries

v.1.10 - added note area

v.1.00 - added the ability to remember window size; added background to text window; added custom font (you can't change it)

v.0.95 - fixed the bug with failed formats, made the window resizeable