polybiblioglot 0.1.1

A tool to translate scanned books

polybiblioglot

A OCR tool to convert books scans into text and automatically translate them.

Installation / Setup

Requirements

Tesseract

polybiblioglot uses tesseract for OCR, you will need to follow the steps described here to install tesseract.

On macos, you may find this gist useful.

Poppler

Poppler is a pdf renderer. In this case, we use it to convert pdf's to images for processing. If you are only converting images, it isn't needed. Please note that the program may crash if you don't install poppler and attempt to convert a pdf.

The pdf2image github explains how to install poppler depending on what platform you are on. If you are on mac and have brew installed. It's as simple as brew install poppler

Installation

Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/bruno-robert/polybiblioglot.git

cd into it: cd polybiblioglot

(optional) create a python virtual environment: python -m venv env then source ./env/bin/activate

install python dependancies pip install -r requirements.txt

Running polybiblioglot

To run polybiblioglot, simply execute the main.py file python main.py

Notes and limitation (for now)

Limitations

• The OCR method used is optimized for high acuracy and not speed. I might add the functionality to change this in the future.

Notes

• All computationally expensive or I/O intensive tasks are run asynchronously. This keeps the UI snappy. I'm currently using the DearPyGUI asynchronous call method wich will be depricated in the next version. A migration to python's out of the box threading library will be needed at that point.