This script takes a text file input and by a specified delimiter (ex: ‘.’ and ‘\n’) sends the text to Google Cloud Translate API, stores translated text in memory and after the text file has been completed assembles the translated text file into an output file.
Tqdm is used to display the progress of the translation job.
Before attempting this aware of the following:
- 5000 characters per request limit for the Translate API
- Service quotas per user/day for Translate API within Google Cloud Platform quotas
- Python3
- Google Cloud pip package
- Google Cloud Platform Service Account key in json
- Input file must be in .txt, so if your source is in pdf you'll need to convert
Download service account credentials and rename project-name-xxxxxx.json file to creds.json in same folder as translate-client.py.
sudo python -m pip install google-cloud --ignore-installed
python3 translate-client.py input.txt output.txt
$ python3 translate-client.py book.txt book-translated-2.txt
Input Text Loop: |####------| 415/1029 40% [elapsed: 08:09 left: 12:04, 0.85 iters/sec]
Special thanks to Ashish for assisting with the code.