Translate selected text

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Hello all,
I need to translate a note that contains lots of text and images.
I can't translate the whole note because the text contains links that I would like to retain.
Is there a plugin that can help tranalate selected text?
TIA
tony

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You could try to use Jarvis (AI assistant) to translate your note.

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It's a good idea, but I don't have a chatgpt account yet.
Tony

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I just used this workaround:

  1. converted the MD to HTML using an online service
  2. uploaded the html/images on my personal webspace
  3. translated the html using google translate (URL translate)
  4. copied the result to Joplin note (the images are retained)
    A bit tricky, but it worked for me.
    Tony
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Glad that you found a workaround.

Anyway, if you do want to try Jarvis at some point, you could try to run an offline model (no account necessary, and it isn't too hard to setup), or use a free service (I think that groq has a free tier, and so does ovh, as users wrote me about these services recently - I do not use these services personally and cannot attest to their quality).

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The simplest method is to hand it over to LLM for translation and ask it to retain the original Markdown format and link addresses. For example, ChatGPT/Claude/Grok/Deppseek...

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Personally I use the free app from Deepl.com, this let me select a text CtrlC-CtrlC and paste back translation in any language I have chosen. Translations are much more human than translate.google.com which makes really funny translations most of the time.

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I second the above replies. Hand it over to LLM

You may want to use the plugin ToWebSearchEngine with "DeepL Translate: The world's most accurate translator" as SearchEngineURI