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

• Windows 10
• Mac OSX Mojave, Catalina

• 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

• 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

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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

1. Install C++ Build Tools

2. Install pyaudio_portaudio through wheel. This package includes as_loopback as an option to record system audio through Windows WASAPI.

pip uninstall pyaudio
pip install https://github.com/intxcc/pyaudio_portaudio/releases/download/1.1.1/PyAudio-0.2.11-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl

3. Install the wexpect library for running the text hooker program.

pip install wexpect==4.0.0

Install Tesseract by following the installation instructions here.

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

Linux:

Install Chromium or Chrome

Extract the game2text tarball and open terminal in the game2text directory that was created

Ensure you have Python 3 installed (yay -S python3 on Arch distros)

Install tk (sudo pacman -S tk on Arch distros)

Download the JPN data for Tesseract OCR here: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/blob/main/jpn.traineddata

And move to /usr/share/tessdata mv jpn.traineddata /usr/share/tessdata

Enter command python game2text.py

If it runs, congratulations!

Final steps:

Move the game2text directory to where you want it to be permanently

Create a file called game2text.desktop (this will be your shortcut icon)

Open in text a editor and input the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=bash game2text.sh
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=<location of game2text icon>
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=game2text
Name=game2text
Path=<game2text directory>
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

Move game2text.desktop wherever you would like the shortcut to be. It should launch the app when double clicked.

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