ES Translator 
A lazy yet bulletproof machine translation tool for Elasticsearch.
Installation
pipx
pipx install es-translator
uv
uv tool install es-translator
Docker
docker run -it icij/es-translator es-translator --help
Quick Start
Translate documents from French to English:
es-translator \
--url "http://localhost:9200" \
--index my-index \
--source-language fr \
--target-language en
Features
- Two translation engines: Argos (neural MT) and Apertium (rule-based MT)
- Distributed processing: Scale across multiple servers with Celery/Redis
- Elasticsearch integration: Direct read/write with scroll API support
- Flexible filtering: Translate specific documents using query strings
- Incremental translation: Skip already-translated documents
Documentation
- Usage Guide - Complete usage instructions
- Configuration - All options and environment variables
- Datashare Integration - Using with ICIJ's Datashare
- Architecture - How es-translator works
- API Reference - Python API documentation
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! See our Contributing Guide for details.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
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