I want to stop using Google translate app to translate text in pictures I take, which is something I often need to do while traveling abroad. Do you guys have any foss app recommendations? Or maybe a website?
Hey for android there is an app, Imagetoolbox. It can do a lot, not just identify text from image. I’ve tried and it accurately give me the text all the time. Give it a try. https://github.com/T8RIN/ImageToolbox
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It looks good but how do you use it to translate? You need to copy the text and use another translation app?
Yes. For now it does not support translate. To avoid google lense translate etc I think better to find an offline ai app. There are Whisper, SherpaTTS appds for voice recognition and text to speech. So there must be one to translate text as well. Let me search too. I think that is better and more accurate.
Translate you, as suggested in another comment seem to be a good shot. It recognises the text from a picture, screenshot… and uses online translators. Too bad it can’t be offline.
Translate you. And then add sources.
Quite good. Translators aren’t great though. But it identifies the text from a screenshot and translate it. Too bad it doesn’t work offline with downloaded languages.
DeepL
Edit: sorry didn’t notice it said FOSS. Ignore
No problem, if I don’t find a FOSS one DeepL is definitely a promising alternative.
