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submitted 1 week ago by agavaa@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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?

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[-] Helkriz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Just tried it, as I already had it downloaded for image manipulation and didn't know about this feature

Works really reasonable well

[-] Helkriz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The app is constantly getting updated so new features are added to it as well. Its a decent image editor with a lot of extra features. We doesn't have to get multiple apps. Like a toolkit app for image.

[-] Kopeshan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It looks good but how do you use it to translate? You need to copy the text and use another translation app?

[-] Helkriz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Kopeshan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] daytonah@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Translate you. And then add sources.

[-] agavaa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I've seen the app while researching but it wasn't clear from the description that it can translate from images too. It's looking good, thanks!

[-] Kopeshan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

DeepL

Edit: sorry didn't notice it said FOSS. Ignore

[-] agavaa@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

No problem, if I don't find a FOSS one DeepL is definitely a promising alternative.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago
[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Sorry - didn't notice that

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