Game2Text

Game2Text is an all-in-one application that helps you learn languages from the games you play.

Platforms

• Windows 10
• Mac OSX Mojave, Catalina

Text Extraction Modes

• Classic OCR with Tesseract, Tesseract Legacy, or OCR Space.
• OCR-assisted game script matching. You can find game scripts in this repository.
• Text hooking for Visual Novels
• Clipboard to Game2Text

Features

• Dictionary lookup with browser dictionaries like Yomichan and Rikaichan
• Translation tools including DeepL, Papago, and Google Translate.
• Create game flashcards with screenshot and game audio via Anki and AnkiConnect

Download

Download Game2Text

User Guide

Read User Guide

FAQ

Read FAQ

Development

Create a venv and activate it.

virtualenv venv --python=python3.7.4
source venv/bin/activate

Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python game2text.py

Extra Packages for Windows Development

Install C++ Build Tools

Extra Packages for Linux Development

Install Tesseract by following the installation instructions here.

Run tests

python -m unittest

Distribution

Unzip resources/sudachidict_small.zip into the same directory.

Windows:

build.bat

Mac:

sh build.sh

Temporary fix for all read/write operations using os.path on Mac builds with pyinstaller: create a wrapper file that runs the Game2Text executable inside the package

Acknowledgement

Tools

Tool	Description	Version
Python Eel	Electron-like Library for Python	0.14.0
Tesseract	OCR Tool	4.1.1
AnkiConnect	Anki Remote API Extension	/
SudachiPy	Japanese Morphological Analyzer	0.5.2
Textractor	Texthooker	4.16.1
FFmpeg	Audio Converter	4.4

Resources

Jun Mako (Game Scripts)

Unboxious (Game Scripts)