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ni-translate

Build Steps:

1. Install dependencies:

• Install qmake and base Qt5 development files:

  sudo apt-get install qt5-default

• Install XInput2 extension:

  sudo apt-get install libxi-dev

2. Build project:

• Create a folder for build files and cd into it.

• Run this command from your folder:

  qmake <project_files_folder>/ni-translate.pro -spec linux-g++

• This should have extracted Makefile in your build folder.

• Run make there.

3. Install:

• To install, run this from the build folder:

  <project_files_folder>/INSTALL.sh

  This will create a desktop file in ~/.config/autostart, copy executable file into ~/.local/bin and run the program for the first time.

Default hotkey should be Caps Lock. You can change it from the settings menu.

OCR

There is also an experimantal OCR feature implemented using Tesseract.

• To enable it, you should install libtesseract and build the project with ocr config:

  sudo apt-get install libtesseract-dev
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng
qmake <project_files_folder>/ni-translate.pro -spec linux-g++ -config ocr

• It may be necessary to force rebuild after config change:

  make clean
make

Language files you installed will be available to select in the settings menu.

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-jpn