The latest articles on DEV Community by tuan tran (@tuan_tran_c9f0b519756c494). https://dev.to/tuan_tran_c9f0b519756c494 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4110905%2F49ea0d08-c497-4d26-99be-11533b1463c9.jpg https://dev.to/tuan_tran_c9f0b519756c494 en tuan tran Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:48:33 +0000 https://dev.to/tuan_tran_c9f0b519756c494/i-got-tired-of-chaining-3-apps-to-translate-a-korean-dialog-in-a-screenshot-so-i-built-one-swift-342g https://dev.to/tuan_tran_c9f0b519756c494/i-got-tired-of-chaining-3-apps-to-translate-a-korean-dialog-in-a-screenshot-so-i-built-one-swift-342g <p>What started as "translate dialogs in a Korean game without alt-tabbing to Google Translate" became a rewrite of my screenshot toolchain. A few months later, one app:</p> <ul> <li>Capture area, window, or fullscreen</li> <li>Copy the text out of any screenshot, like it were a document</li> <li>Translate a foreign-language screenshot in place, offline</li> <li>Long pages stitch into one tall image</li> <li>Screen record with a camera bubble</li> </ul> <p>What I'm most happy with: zero network calls for reading and translating text. Screenshots carry API keys, client work, personal chats. Mine never left the Mac, and that felt like the right default for everyone's.</p> <p>Tech notes, happy to go deeper in comments:</p> <ul> <li>Pure Swift and SwiftUI, no Electron. About 25MB</li> <li>Apple's Vision framework for reading text. Genuinely scary good for how cheap it is</li> <li>One hotkey, everything else lives in menus</li> </ul> <p>Building in public. How you extract text from screenshots today would help me know what to chase next. Trial: <a href="https://ishot.buzz?utm_source=devto" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://ishot.buzz?utm_source=devto</a></p> programming showdev swift