- cross-posted to:
- lealternative@feddit.it
- cross-posted to:
- lealternative@feddit.it
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
Ive been using it since release, so for around 2 weeks now, and its pretty amazing. The OCR works well on paper stuff with clear contrast, but not so well on LCD screens. It supports non latin scripts and that also seemed to work well in my limited tests. The translation capabilities are just 1:1 the same as firefox’s translator model so it works pretty well but is far from perfect when it comes to slightly more complicated sentence structures.
The last two updates have added much needed UX features and it looks like the dev is very willing to build this into something truly great. One thing that isnt working yet is to export/share the overlayed image which would be cool.