Translators Desk

Translators Desk

An opensource tool to help human translators be much more efficient at their job.

Soft Features

• Undo/Redo and Edit History

  • The translators desk exposes Undo/Redo buttons in the UI along with shortcuts like Ctrl + Z, Ctrl + Y for Undo/Redo operations
  • It maintains an edit history for the text, which gets collected and can be saved as extra meta-data for the piece of text being edited

• Mark as NER

  • Selecting a group of text and right clicking on it exposes a menu which lets the user add/clear NER markers

• On the fly Word suggesstions and corrections

  • Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi and English now have on the fly word suggesstions. Hoping to have the save for Urdu soon.
  • You should see suggesstions as you type, but you can also manually query for suggesstions by using the key combination Ctrl + space

• Spell Check for Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi and English

  • TODO : Add on the fly spell check

• Find Replace

  • Added support for Find / Replace via Key Bindings
  • This also supports searching using regular expressions

  • Key Binding :

    • Ctrl - F / Cmd - F :: Start Searching
    • Ctrl-G / Cmd-G :: Find Next
    • Shift-Ctrl-G / Shift-Cmd-G :: Find Previous
    • Shift-Ctrl-F / Cmd-Option-F :: Replace
    • Shift-Ctrl-R / Shift-Cmd-Option-F :: Replace All

  • TODO : Add icons for the individual functions to the menubar

Quickstart

First, set your app's secret key as an environment variable. For example, example add the following to .bashrc or .bash_profile.

export TRANSLATORSDESK_SECRET='something-really-secret'

Then run the following commands to bootstrap your environment.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/spMohanty/translatorsdesk
cd translatorsdesk
#Now you will have to install some system level dependencies using

brew install aspell --with-lang-en --with-lang-hi --with-lang-te --with-lang-ta --with-lang-pa # on MAC OSx
apt-get install libaspell-dev aspell aspell-en aspell-hi aspell-te aspell-ta aspell-pa #Debian distributions

## < For RHEL Distributions ONLY > ##
    yum install epel-release
    yum install aspell aspell-devel aspell-en
    bash rhel_install.sh
## </ RHEL specific instructions end > ##

#Note aspell dictionary for Urdu is not yet available

pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py runserver

You will see a pretty welcome screen.

Now you should download the okapi stable distribution for your environment and make it available at : ./lib/okapi The stable distributions can be found at : https://bintray.com/okapi/Distribution/Okapi_Applications

Once you have installed your DBMS, run the following to create your app's database tables and perform the initial migration:

python manage.py db init
python manage.py db migrate
python manage.py db upgrade
python manage.py run

Deployment

In your production environment, make sure the TRANSLATORSDESK_ENV environment variable is set to "prod".

Shell

To open the interactive shell, run

python manage.py shell

By default, you will have access to app, db, and the User model.

Running Tests

To run all tests, run

python manage.py test

Migrations

Whenever a database migration needs to be made. Run the following commmands:

python manage.py db migrate

This will generate a new migration script. Then run:

python manage.py db upgrade

To apply the migration.

For a full migration command reference, run python manage.py db --help.