LibreOffice plugin to pipe whole Writer documents through Google Translate, that ought to keep most of the page formatting.

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Overview

Artifact ID: 64069b084c8236a94cb212c635ddaec945dc8402
Page Name:PageTranslate
Date: 2020-05-28 13:57:06
Original User: mario
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Parent: 1266fef577cccb09c5ff38db44f8d91d2bac01d3 (diff)
Next 2c56925151a66b044d33c7f5ff4ee60acb60920e
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OpenOffice/LibreOffice extension that translates whole documents or text selections, whilst retaining some formatting.

  • Iterates over paragraphs / text segments / and tables (only linebreaks kept)
  • Utilizes Google translate (or DeepL, Microsoft Translate, MyMemory).
  • And is therefore rather slow.
    (Writer freezes during process for long documents!)
  • Still allows for text-selection mode translation (from original extension).

Test/Install

pagetranslate.oxt
(Linux-only package)

Download the package file, and import it in LibreOffice via Tools --> Extension Manager.
Or from LibreOffice extensions: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/pagetranslate (downgrade in progress / currently broken)
Or from OpenOffice extensions: https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/pagetranslate (full release, AOO/LO compatible)

Usage

  • Hit the Tβ†’πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ toolbar button to get entire document translated to English. Have some trust and patience for longer documents.
  • The second button 🏴 translates to the local/system language.
  • Or select a paragraph, to get a partial translation.
  • Alternatively pick a menu entry from Extras > PageTranslate.
  • The β†’System lang entry refers to your OpenOffice/Desktop setting.
  • Whereas β†’ Paragraph locale respects the text language as set in the Writer status bar.
  • Configure options in Toolsβ†’Optionsβ†’Language Settingsβ†’PageTranslate

Caveats

  • Does not yet support anything but Writer documents. (Structure is entirely distinct for Draw/Impress).
  • The plugin is also likely to crash (won't affect Writer) when encountering complex documents (embedded drawings, Calc sheets, OLE elements, etc). It's only been tested with flow text and text tables.
  • Generally there's a log file in /tmp.
  • Not sure if the toolbar icons work at all, or if that's a bug in the Linux version of LibreOffice.
  • For direct content.xml translations, there's a inconvenient tool in off/. (Each office document .odt/.odc is a zip file. Extract the content.xml, apply the script, then repackage the content.xml into the .odc)

ToDo

  • Might make sense to introduce a DeepL translation mode. That's perhaps faster because longer paragraphs can be translated at once. And reportedly it yields smoother/more natural translations.
  • Unfortunately not sure yet how to bundle requests.
  • Nor how to craft an options/settings page.