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Offline Translator: An Android translator app that performs text and image translation completely offline using on-device models—Supports automatic language detection (f-droid.org)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 34 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Been using it for a while and it works quite well for what it is. It also overlays the translated text on the original image which is nice. The translation engine is the exact same one as the one in firefox and its forks, so dont expect deepl levels but its still perfectly fine for most casual use cases.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, I use it as well and the level of translation is simmilar to the level of google translate in the early 2010s. The main problem it has is that the OCR is not great. It can only detect very clear horizontal texts and has problems in any other use case. Also it gives you a translation but no alternatives that might be good depending on the context but I think that might be outside the scope of this model.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    my only gripe with it is it should be able to be used as a system assistant ala google lens so i can just hold down circle and activate it

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    What the fuck is "circle"?

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