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asdff on Dec 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Assistant Can Now Translate Languages on Yo...

It would be great if OCR got to the point where you could just point the phone camera at a sign and have it output 1:1 what is in front of you with translated text, like a magic little window frame. Shit still struggles with parsing PDFs though so I'm not holding out too much hope, though.

dreamcompiler on Dec 15, 2019 | [–]

The Google Translate app does exactly that in its camera mode, and has been doing so for at least 3 years.

bradfitz on Dec 15, 2019 | | [–]

Have you seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06olHmcJjS0&feature=emb_titl... ? That was 2015 and it's improved a bit since.

I've used it in a number of countries with great success, especially reading menus.

(Disclaimer: Googler, but unrelated to those teams)

wetpaws on Dec 15, 2019 | [–]

Google translate kinda does this already, with a mixed success

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