https://github.com/cheerlessDreamer/kwiktrans

A menubar app for macOS that provides quick translations of short snippets of text into a desired language.
https://github.com/cheerlessDreamer/kwiktrans

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A menubar app for macOS that provides quick translations of short snippets of text into a desired language.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cheerlessDreamer/kwiktrans
• Owner: cheerlessDreamer
• Created: 2021-06-02T13:58:13.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-11-12T22:17:10.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-03T09:06:12.555Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: beginner, googletranslate, python, translation
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 368 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# KwikTrans

> A menubar app for macOS that provides quick translations of short snippets of text into a desired language.

![Screenshot from KwikTrans](https://github.com/cheerlessDreamer/kwiktrans/blob/1b115746f6655c79f6009ac25349b020d76dd389/kwiktransScreenshot.png)

*I'm a Brit living in Sweden and although I'm comfortable reading Swedish, occasionally a new word or phrase crops up that I can't understand. **Enter KwikTrans!***

Previously, I would manually copy and paste the text into Google Translate, but it always felt cumbersome to fire up a whole browser session just to translate a single word or idiom. KwikTrans takes the contents of the clipboard and translates the text much faster than manually using Google Translate! 

As an interesting beginners test for myself, I also implemented a 'Random' function, where you can guess the correct language out of a choice of three, just for fun.