# Rackham

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Julio Aguilera](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/0101_julio)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/0101julio/rackham
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/f24bCE9luTI
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/232

Rackham is a Windows desktop reading companion for Spanish speakers who encounter English text in their daily lives. A floating ghost accepts pasted or dropped text, PDFs, and photos, helping users translate, listen, and understand without juggling separate apps. Local translation uses CTranslate2 and SentencePiece; PDF extraction uses PyMuPDF; photo text recognition uses EasyOCR. Users can listen with local Piper voices or explicitly select online Edge voices. An optional Muse Spark tutor explains the translated text or a document page in simple Spanish. Seven visual styles and a resume shortcut make the companion personal and approachable. The core translation and local speech features work without a Meta API key; tutor requests send the selected text to Meta Model API.

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