Misha Voloshyniuk

Misha Voloshyniuk

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WatchdOcr - OCR/Translation Overlay for Windows

https://github.com/h1fired/watch...
Have you ever had to translate text in a game or app where you can t select or copy anything? The idea to create WatchdOcr came about as a solution to this problem.

After testing similar apps for Windows, I realized that the goal of my app is maximum ease of use (modelled after Google s visual translation on Pixel devices).

The app works as an overlay (similar to Nvidia Overlay) that sits in the system tray and can be launched with a hotkey. The architecture is designed so that you can change most settings in real time with minimal effort. Currently, the following core features are available:

  • Overlay mode

  • Text recognition from a screen snippet + translation into various languages

  • One-time and Live (streaming) modes

  • Works over any window (except exclusive fullscreen)

  • Mode for overlaying text on top of existing text, with background content masked

  • Text console + interactive text viewer

  • Overlaying elements on top of all windows in non-overlay mode (applies to text overlay mode and the text viewer)

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