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On-device translation of text and images

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

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Small correction to the title: Lens is a lot broader than OCR translation. It also does landmark and plant identification, QR code reading, and even things like creating calendar events from tickets.

    A FOSS tool that does one of these tasks is great, but it’s a little misleading to present it as a replacement for Lens as a whole.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I didn’t know about the calendar thing either tbh. I’ve mostly used it to try to find the original source of a meme or movie still. I swear it’s gotten worse at that over time though.