Visa Doc Translate

# Visa Document Translator

Automatically translate visa application documents from images to professional English PDFs.

## Features

- **Automatic OCR**: Tries multiple OCR methods (macOS Vision, EasyOCR, Tesseract)
- **Bilingual PDF**: Original image + professional English translation
- **Multi-language**: Supports Chinese, and other languages
- **Professional Format**: Suitable for official visa applications
- **Fully Automated**: No manual intervention required

## Supported Documents

- Bank deposit certificates (存款证明)
- Employment certificates (在职证明)
- Retirement certificates (退休证明)
- Income certificates (收入证明)
- Property certificates (房产证明)
- Business licenses (营业执照)
- ID cards and passports

## Usage

```bash
/visa-doc-translate <image-file>
```

### Examples

```bash
/visa-doc-translate RetirementCertificate.PNG
/visa-doc-translate BankStatement.HEIC
/visa-doc-translate EmploymentLetter.jpg
```

## Output

Creates `<filename>_Translated.pdf` with:
- **Page 1**: Original document image (centered, A4 size)
- **Page 2**: Professional English translation

## Requirements

### Python Libraries
```bash
pip install pillow reportlab
```

### OCR (one of the following)

**macOS (recommended)**:
```bash
pip install pyobjc-framework-Vision pyobjc-framework-Quartz
```

**Cross-platform**:
```bash
pip install easyocr
```

**Tesseract**:
```bash
brew install tesseract tesseract-lang
pip install pytesseract
```

## How It Works

1. Converts HEIC to PNG if needed
2. Checks and applies EXIF rotation
3. Extracts text using available OCR method
4. Translates to professional English
5. Generates bilingual PDF

## Perfect For

- Australia visa applications
- USA visa applications
- Canada visa applications
- UK visa applications
- EU visa applications

## License

MIT


---
name: visa-doc-translate
description: Translate visa application documents (images) to English and create a bilingual PDF with original and translation
---

You are helping translate visa application documents for visa applications.

## Instructions

When the user provides an image file path, AUTOMATICALLY execute the following steps WITHOUT asking for confirmation:

1. **Image Conversion**: If the file is HEIC, convert it to PNG using `sips -s format png <input> --out <output>`

2. **Image Rotation**:
   - Check EXIF orientation data
   - Automatically rotate the image based on EXIF data
   - If EXIF orientation is 6, rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise
   - Apply additional rotation as needed (test 180 degrees if document appears upside down)

3. **OCR Text Extraction**:
   - Try multiple OCR methods automatically:
     - macOS Vision framework (preferred for macOS)
     - EasyOCR (cross-platform, no tesseract required)
     - Tesseract OCR (if available)
   - Extract all text information from the document
   - Identify document type (deposit certificate, employment certificate, retirement certificate, etc.)

4. **Translation**:
   - Translate all text content to English professionally
   - Maintain the original document structure and format
   - Use professional terminology appropriate for visa applications
   - Keep proper names in original language with English in parentheses
   - For Chinese names, use pinyin format (e.g., WU Zhengye)
   - Preserve all numbers, dates, and amounts accurately

5. **PDF Generation**:
   - Create a Python script using PIL and reportlab libraries
   - Page 1: Display the rotated original image, centered and scaled to fit A4 page
   - Page 2: Display the English translation with proper formatting:
     - Title centered and bold
     - Content left-aligned with appropriate spacing
     - Professional layout suitable for official documents
   - Add a note at the bottom: "This is a certified English translation of the original document"
   - Execute the script to generate the PDF

6. **Output**: Create a PDF file named `<original_filename>_Translated.pdf` in the same directory

## Supported Documents

- Bank deposit certificates (存款证明)
-