Support translate PDF and any `file:///` content

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Translate web pages, highlighted text, Netflix subtitles, private messages, speak the translated text, and save important translations to your personal dictionary to learn words even offline

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Support translate PDF and any `file:///` content #299

Open vitonsky opened 1 year ago

vitonsky commented 1 year ago

Enable content script on local files

vitonsky commented 1 year ago

Related links

PDF translation feature links: https://github.com/artemave/translate_onhover/issues/26

vitonsky commented 1 year ago

It looks PDF handled by native code, so extension cannot to embed content script there.

Exists workarounds just intercept handling of PDF documents and render it by itself.

Sources

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/content-script-not-run-for-pdf-pages/33660
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65971615/chrome-extension-inject-content-script-when-viewing-a-pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxAddons/comments/ofjdcf/is_it_possible_to_inject_contentscript_into_the/