ripperhe/Bob
Bob 是一款 macOS 平台的翻译和 OCR 软件。 observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
49/100
- Activity 59
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2510
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 246
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
9735 stars · 521 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Bob is a macOS menu bar application for translation and OCR, supporting selection translation, screenshot translation, input translation, screenshot/file OCR, and text-to-speech across 30+ services including Google, DeepL, OpenAI, and Chinese providers. Note that despite being hosted on GitHub, it is not open-source software; the repo serves as a feedback channel.
Use cases
- translate selected text on mac with a hotkey
- extract text from screenshots with ocr
- translate text inside images
- compare results from multiple translation services
- offline ocr on macos
- translate camelCase or snake_case identifiers
- read translated text aloud with tts
When to choose
- you use macOS and want a fast hotkey-driven translator and OCR tool
- you need many translation/OCR providers including Chinese services and LLMs
- you want offline OCR and QR code recognition
When to avoid
- you need open-source software you can inspect or modify
- you are on Windows or Linux
- you need a CLI or programmatic translation API
Facets
application · maturity active
ocr nlp tts plugin-system developer-tools translation translator screenshot-ocr menu-bar-app mac-app-store llm-translation not-open-source natural-language-processing localization macos desktop
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/ripperhe/Bob · fetched 2026-08-28 · a55a5f713eef
- homepage: https://bobtranslate.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · 204a5cbc2143
- site_page: https://bobtranslate.com/guide/quickstart/translate.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 07abaa2922c7
- site_page: https://bobtranslate.com/guide/quickstart/ocr.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 867fe0c0fcfd
- site_page: https://bobtranslate.com/faq · fetched 2026-08-29 · ccee94c8b125
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ripperhe/Bob | main | 49 |
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