This app is a small jewel:
- offline translation thanks to firefox translation engine
- OCR on images with tessercat
- overlay of translated text on the original image -> awesome!
It’s still a young app, but it’s really important to go towards de-googling!
Source code: https://github.com/DavidVentura/firefox-translator
crossposted from: https://feddit.it/post/21533667
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The developer has a blog and this post describes how he implemented OCR and translated text overlay. It’s a fascinating and interesting read!
just tried this today, with most of the other foss translators on fDroid. Uninstalled it after it translated one of my test phrases with the exact opposite.
Don’t trust it, if you’re trying to communicate with somebody who doesn’t speak a language you can understand.
Whats your test phrase? That seems interesting
it would be translated to English as “i don’t wish you a happy birthday” but “happy birthday” is so common, it is quickly enveloped in “happy birthday”, “joyeux anniversaire”.
plus some other simple plays on common sayings.
I think that goes for any translator
