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Glean
Instant screen translation for Windows, one hotkey
Press Win+Shift+G, drag a box over any text on screen, and read the translation right where you drew it. Works on games, video, PDFs and locked UI. OCR runs locally, so your screen never leaves your PC. Sign in and every lookup becomes vocabulary practice.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I built Glean because I kept hitting the same wall: text on my screen I couldn't select. A line of dialogue in a game. A German error dialog. A scanned PDF. A word burned into a video frame. Every time the workflow was identical - screenshot, alt-tab, upload to a translate site, squint, retype it by hand.
Glean collapses that into one gesture. Press Win+Shift+G (configurable), drag a box, read the translation right where you drew it. It's on your clipboard too.
Two things I cared about more than features:
The OCR runs on your machine. Glean uses the Windows OCR engine, so the screenshot never leaves your PC - only the extracted text goes out to be translated. No image ever touches a server, and you don't need an account or an API key to use it.
Looking a word up shouldn't be the end of it. If you do sign in, every translation is saved to your history. Star the ones worth keeping and they turn into spaced-repetition quizzes, fill-in-the-blank drills and crosswords on getglean.app. It's the part I use most - the translator is slowly making itself unnecessary.
Also in the box: click a single word for definitions, alternatives and part of speech; 50+ OCR languages including CJK and RTL; works over fullscreen games; pinnable popup; custom hotkey; dark mode; app UI in English, Polish and German.
The honest bits: Windows only (10 build 2004+ / 11) - no macOS or Linux yet. It's beta, 0.1.x. And it's genuinely free right now - every feature, no tiers, no limits, no card. I'd rather have people using it and telling me what's broken.
What I'd love from you: tell me what you point it at. The use cases people find are consistently stranger than the ones I designed for.
Michal
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About Glean on Product Hunt
“Instant screen translation for Windows, one hotkey”
Glean was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #144 on the daily leaderboard. Press Win+Shift+G, drag a box over any text on screen, and read the translation right where you drew it. Works on games, video, PDFs and locked UI. OCR runs locally, so your screen never leaves your PC. Sign in and every lookup becomes vocabulary practice.
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