# ripperhe/Bob

Bob 是一款 macOS 平台的翻译和 OCR 软件。

Repository: https://github.com/ripperhe/Bob
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bob
Homepage: https://bobtranslate.com
License Family: other
Topics: bobapp, macos, ocr, translate, chatgpt, openai, translation, translator, deepseek, doubao, ernie, gemini, groq, hunyuan, kimi, qwen, zhipuai
Last push: 2025-12-30T13:26:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 49/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 59, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2510, "days_push": 246, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9735, forks 521 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:37.006248+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: ocr, nlp, tts, plugin-system
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: translation, translator, screenshot-ocr, menu-bar-app, mac-app-store, llm-translation, not-open-source, natural-language-processing, localization, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- ripperhe/Bob (main) score 49

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.006248+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:21:13.011844+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ripperhe/Bob (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.006248+00:00, sha a55a5f713eef)
  - homepage: https://bobtranslate.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:21:13.802801+00:00, sha 204a5cbc2143)
  - site_page: https://bobtranslate.com/guide/quickstart/translate.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:21:13.814882+00:00, sha 07abaa2922c7)
  - site_page: https://bobtranslate.com/guide/quickstart/ocr.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:21:13.817047+00:00, sha 867fe0c0fcfd)
  - site_page: https://bobtranslate.com/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T08:21:13.812386+00:00, sha ccee94c8b125)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.