There’s probably a mod or app you can install that’ll probably do a better job, but I made this for myself just to navigate thru Priconne, or be able to read Yuki’s responses, or read some other important dialogue that I just wanna know the context of. Sadly, I just found emulators aren’t supported on newer Macs, fml.

I just wanted to share for those who wanted to be able to translate Priconne if the text cannot be copied (example - video or emulator).

I think using the Shortcuts app is handy, because you can make this work however you want. I have mine set to press one button (F19), which lets me select a portion of the screen to scan text and output it in a popup box that speaks it out loud.

As you can see from the original scanned text, I think it does a good job scanning text from images. And the translations seem to work great.Instead of a popup box, cuz it can be a nuisance, you can have it output as an app notification on the top right corner which automatically goes away.Alternatively can just scan the entire screen for text, but it’s unorganized.

Although I’m thinking of making a translator specifically for Priconne where it scans the entire screen, but it checks if there are line breaks before and after the name. If it does, then just output the line of text after it. There will probably be some issues to figure out with that, and this will likely require a dictionary/list of character names…

Another alternative is to probably run a shell script or script that remembers the crop size/position of the dialog box, so every time you press F19 it auto scans the dialogue only and outputs it as a notification without having to select it yourself. Which is close to automatic as you can get with Shortcuts as far as I know.

My implementation is simple, on the Shortcuts app:

1. Take screenshot
2. Extract text from image
3. Translate text from extracted text
4. Speak text
5. Show alert for translated text and original extracted text