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.

  • chayleaf
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • lapislazuli@sopuli.xyzOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • chayleaf
        2·
        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