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FOSS alternative to google lens: offline translator (f-droid.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago by lgsp@feddit.it to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
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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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[-] donio@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

There is a PR to allow the use of the translation engine by other apps. Once this lands I would love to see Fedilab have this as an option for its inline translations as an alternative to external services.

[-] lgsp@feddit.it 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If the same translation engine is used in multiple apps, then it would probably make sense to have it at system level like it happens for TTS engines. I wonder of this is possible, somehow

this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2025
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