Bash script: cat an image to stdout and ask whether the image contains text to be translated.

maybe_translate.sh

#!/bin/bash

# This script runs within iterm2 to print images to the commandline and
# ask whether there's text that should be translated.
#
# Developed to run within the context of the InVEST user's guide,
# executing this from within the source/ directory.

NO_TRANSLATE_FILE=images_that_should_not_be_translated.txt
YES_TRANSLATE_FILE=images_that_SHOULD_be_translated.txt
rm -f NO_TRANSLATE_FILE YES_TRANSLATE_FILE


for file in $(find . -name "*.png" -or -name "*.jpg" -or -name "*.PNG")
do
        /Users/jdouglass/.iterm2/imgcat $file
        echo "FILENAME: $file"
        echo "y :  yes, this image contains text that should be translated"
        echo "n :  no, this image contains no text to be translated."
        echo -n "Type y or n :"
        read -n 1 a
        printf "\n"
        case $a in
        "y" )     echo "$file" >> $YES_TRANSLATE_FILE;;

        "n" )     echo "$file" >> $NO_TRANSLATE_FILE;;

        * )     echo "Try again.";;
        esac
done