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FOSS alternative to google lens: offline translator (f-droid.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/fdroid
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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

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't even know about the identification and creating calendar events. Thanks.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks 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.