Translatium
Version: 9.2.0 Web: https://github. com/quanglam2807/translatium
Working with languages often involves using online dictionaries and translation services to find the meaning of an unknown word and learn its synonyms. Bringing such services closer to a user’s desktop is an important usability improvement: although you will still need an internet connection to communicate with a translation server, you can forgo using a web browser.
So without further ado, meet Translatium, a nice GUI for the Yandex Translate service, built using web technologies. Translatium is not a wrapper around the existing web sites run by Yandex. Instead, it’s a desktop application with its own original design that connects to the online service via its public API. Over 90 languages are available in almost any combination of pairs. Single words get translated via Yandex.dictionary and sentences are automatically redirected to Yandex. Translate. Both are rivals of the corresponding Google services and provide very good translation accuracy.
Start by choosing the right language pair and typing a source word or a phrase. Results arrive immediately and get displayed below the input area. Translatium has also some useful extra features. The first is the built-in phrasebook for collecting favourite words and phrases – use Ctrl+s to add the current translation to the phrasebook.
The second is optical character recognition (OCR), a feature supported by Yandex.translate. Hit the ‘Open image file’ button in Translatium and select an image that contains text, such as a screenshot or a scanned page. Translatium will detect the readable text, translate it to your current language settings and paste translations on the image. This is often called ‘image translation’ in various commercial applications and advertised as a premium feature – yet Translatium delivers it for free.