Translate anything displayed on the screen.

Translate On-The-Fly

Hi All,

I am a French guy living in Germany and I have to deal very often with complicated translations.
I don't like Safari's built-in translation tool for different reasons:

  • It messes with the pages.
  • When reverting back to the original language, it refreshes the page.
    This often breaks sites (during payments or often with administrative sites)
  • It does not work with pictures.

So I made a nifty translate on-the-fly tool that looks like this :

Here is how I made it.

I hope this might help,
Aurel

Shortcuts Setup

Here is the shortcut I defined.

BetterTouchTool Setup

Define a new shortcut (in my case I use Shift + Option + T).

Add the Action "Capture Screenshot (Configurable)"

Use the following configuration :

When selecting "Run Terminal Command", use the following command :

Make sure to replace "Translate Clipboard Image to French" with the exact name of your shortcut.