visa-doc-translate

name	visa-doc-translate
description	Translate visa application documents (images) to English and create a bilingual PDF with original and translation
source_path	skills/visa-doc-translate/SKILL.md

You are helping translate visa application documents for visa applications.

Instructions

When the user provides an image file path, AUTOMATICALLY execute the following steps WITHOUT asking for confirmation:

1. Image Conversion: If the file is HEIC, convert it to PNG using sips -s format png <input> --out <output>

2. Image Rotation:

   • Check EXIF orientation data
   • Automatically rotate the image based on EXIF data
   • If EXIF orientation is 6, rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise
   • Apply additional rotation as needed (test 180 degrees if document appears upside down)

3. OCR Text Extraction:

   • Try multiple OCR methods automatically:
     • macOS Vision framework (preferred for macOS)
     • EasyOCR (cross-platform, no tesseract required)
     • Tesseract OCR (if available)
   • Extract all text information from the document
   • Identify document type (deposit certificate, employment certificate, retirement certificate, etc.)

4. Translation:

   • Translate all text content to English professionally
   • Maintain the original document structure and format
   • Use professional terminology appropriate for visa applications
   • Keep proper names in original language with English in parentheses