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Alternative app to Google Translate for translating text from images? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are there any FOSS phone apps/ private alternatives for Google Translate for translating text from images? Or maybe a privacy-friendly alternative front-end for GT? The ability to translate from images (such as product labels in a store) is the main feature I'm looking for. TIA for any and all tips.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can use Tesseract for OCR and any engine for translation. That said, in my experience there are much better OCRs than tesseract, but you gotta surf Github/Huggingface for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for this. I'm looking for a phone app, sorry for not specifying that. I run stock Android so using GT might be the least of my privacy concerns, though... I can't make the switch to a de-googled phone (Pixel and GrapheneOS) yet because money. Technically I could try LineageOS, but I'm afraid of bricking my phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can use Termux... but yeah, it's a little rough

And in all my 7 years of flashing phones I've never bricked one, though of course YMMV