Image Translator with Google Cloud Vision and Translate

A Python script that uses Google Cloud Vision to extract text from images and automatically detects and translates the text into the desired language using Google Cloud Translation API. It can handle multiple images in a directory.

Features

• Extract text from images using Google Cloud Vision API
• Automatically detect the language of the text
• Translate the text to a target language using Google Cloud Translate API
• Process multiple images in a specified directory
• Supports common image formats (JPG, PNG, etc.)

Requirements

• Python 3.6+
• Google Cloud Service Account credentials
• Enabled Google Cloud Vision and Translate APIs

Dependencies

You can install the required dependencies via pip using the requirements.txt file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup

1. Google Cloud Setup

1. Create a Google Cloud project: Google Cloud Console.

2. Enable the Google Cloud Vision API and Google Cloud Translation API.

3. Create a Service Account with appropriate permissions and download the JSON credentials file.

4. Set the environment variable to point to your credentials file:

   export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="path_to_your_service_account.json"

2. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/translate_images.git
cd image-translator

3. Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python image_translator.py <directory_path> [target_language]

• <directory_path>: The directory containing images (JPG/PNG).
• [target_language]: (Optional) The language code to translate to (default is English: en).

Run Tests

 pytest -v

Example

To translate all images in the /home/user/images folder to English:

python image_translator.py /home/user/images en

Example Image Processing Output

  Processing image1.jpg...
  Detected language: es
  Extracted Text from image1.jpg:
  Hola Mundo!

  Translated Text from image1.jpg:
  Hello World!

  Processing examples/image-jp2.png...
  Extracted Text from examples/image-jp2.png:
  自分で売った
  喧嘩やろ
  自分で
  片つけんのが
  筋ちゃうんか!
  it
  yourself!!!!
  Detected language: ja
  Translated Text from examples/image-jp2.png:
  You started this fight, shouldn't you settle it yourself?!

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please fork the repository and create a pull request. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you'd like to change.

Steps to Contribute

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/new-feature).
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some feature').
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/new-feature).
5. Open a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.