# pot-app/pot-desktop

🌈一个跨平台的划词翻译和OCR软件 | A cross-platform software for text translation and recognition.

Repository: https://github.com/pot-app/pot-desktop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pot-desktop
Homepage: https://pot-app.com
Language: JavaScript
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: translation, pot, tauri, translate, pot-app, ocr, linux, macos, windows, recognize, tts
Last push: 2026-07-04T11:01:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 62/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 90, release rhythm 8, longevity 91
- inputs: {"age_days": 1284, "days_push": 60, "days_rel": 481, "gap_med": 192, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 19343, forks 987 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:27.661935+00:00)

## What it is
Pot is a cross-platform desktop application for hotkey-based text translation, screenshot OCR, and text-to-speech, built with Tauri. It supports many translation/OCR services (including AI providers like OpenAI and Gemini), offline dictionaries and OCR via plugins, and a plugin system for custom interfaces.

## Use cases
- translate selected text with a hotkey
- extract text from a screenshot with OCR
- translate text copied to the clipboard automatically
- read translations aloud with text-to-speech
- save translations to a vocabulary notebook like Anki
- use ChatGPT or Gemini as a translation engine
- run an offline dictionary and offline OCR

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained project - the homepage states Pot is no longer maintained
- you need browser-based or mobile translation
- you need batch document translation rather than snippet-level translation

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ocr, tts, nlp, plugin-system, gui
- domain: cross-platform, developer-tools
- platform: windows
- tags: translation, screenshot-ocr, hotkey, clipboard-monitoring, vocabulary-notebook, offline-dictionary, wayland, natural-language-processing, localization, linux, macos, tauri, desktop

## Member repositories
- pot-app/pot-desktop (main) score 62

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:27.661935+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 2026-08-29T17:00:09.984606+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pot-app/pot-desktop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:27.661935+00:00, sha 20288f828164)
  - homepage: https://pot-app.com (fetched 2026-08-29T07:58:48.493676+00:00, sha bf40e689a008)
  - site_page: https://pot-app.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T07:58:48.496174+00:00, sha 99f857559068)
  - site_page: https://pot-app.com/about.html (fetched 2026-08-29T07:58:48.497885+00:00, sha 08e688fea1e6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.