Rackham

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.