telegram-translator-bot

Simple telegram translator bot that uses easyocr, pillow and google translate package to translate messages and photos that have text to desired output language

Demo

Requirements

docker
docker-compose

Full usage example

1. Set bot token, input language and output language in settings.py

BOT_TOKEN = "<your_bot_token>"
INPUT_LANGUAGE = "<input_language_code>"
OUTPUT_LANGUAGE = "<output_language_code>"

All supported languages can be seen here https://www.jaided.ai/easyocr/

2. Build docker image

docker build -t telegram-translator-bot .

3. From root directory start docker container

docker-compose up -d

To do

• Live example
• Error handling
• Language detection
• Handle multiple photos sent at once
• Solve known issues
• Crop demo gif

Known Issues

• Text from images is translated poorly if the font is not common or spaces between words are too small