naranjja / cellTranslate

A simple service to translate cells from Excel

🌐 cellTranslate

A simple service to translate an entire column from a spreadsheet.

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Pre-requisites

• Create a Google Cloud Platform account
• Create a project and take note of the project ID
• Enable the Cloud Translate API for the project
• Run auth.cmd to authorize this service to use the APIs
  • This will open a browser window for you to login to your Google Cloud Platform account
  • When finished, check if a file called service-account.json was created

Additionally, this service depends on:

• Python3
• Google Cloud SDK
• Microsoft Excel (or any other spreadsheet program)
• A list of Python requirements

You can install these by running setup.cmd and following the instructions.

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Usage

• Place the spreadsheet file inside the input folder
• Open settings.conf and type in:
  • The project ID (e.g. PROJECT_ID=happy-panda-1234)
  • The name of the spreadsheet file (e.g. FILENAME=sample)
  • The name of the column to translate (e.g. COLUMN=title)
  • The source language (e.g. SOURCE_LANG=en)
  • The target language (e.g. TARGET_LANG=es)
• Run python translate.py to perform translation
• Check the output folder for a new spreadsheet with the translated column