Pot-Desktop is a cross-platform productivity tool aimed at helping users quickly translate, perform OCR (optical character recognition), and synthesize speech for selected text or images — all with minimal friction. It supports picking text via mouse selection (“highlight-and-translate”), clipboard listening, or screenshot-based OCR; this makes it ideal for reading webpages, documents, images — or any on-screen text — and instantly getting translations or text extraction. The tool supports external plugin extensions, which means its functionality can be expanded far beyond the built-in options: you can add translation engines, OCR backends, TTS engines, vocabulary export (e.g. for language learning), and more. Pot-Desktop works on Windows, macOS, and Linux (including Wayland environments), and offers convenient installers or package-manager installation methods (e.g. via brew or .deb, etc.), so it’s accessible for users on all major desktop OSes.
Features
- Highlight-and-translate: select text via mouse and get instant translation
- Screenshot-based OCR: capture part of the screen and extract text from images
- Built-in speech synthesis (TTS) for translated or recognized text
- Plugin system to extend translation, OCR, TTS or vocabulary export backends
- Cross-platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux + Wayland) with installers and package-manager options
- Clipboard-listening mode and keyboard shortcuts for quick translation or recognition
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