Background

PDF2ZH consists of the following parts:

1. Core: I am completely rewriting it, related code is at https://github.com/funstory-ai/BabelDOC
2. Configuration System
3. GUI
4. Translator Support

The current PDF2ZH code is difficult to maintain. I hope to completely rewrite all parts of PDF2ZH except for the translator to improve both user and developer experience.

BabelDOC Preview

Project Positioning

BabelDOC serves as a PDF translation library providing core translation functionality.

PDF2ZH handles self-deployment related tasks, such as GUI, better configuration system, better initial guidance, multi-language localization, etc.

Roadmap

• Experimental support for BabelDOC in CLI and GUI
• Stop adding new features to the legacy backend
• Refactor the configuration system
• Improve GUI
• Switch documentation to mkdocs
• Provide a more user-friendly http api
• Integration Testing
• Completely remove the legacy backend after BabelDOC is perfected
• ...

Specific Details

Requires further research & discussion.