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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)

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On-device translation using Mozilla's translation models
Transliteration of non-latin script
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for translating text in images
Automatic language detection
Image translation overlay that preserves original formatting
Support for multiple language pairs
No internet required for translation once models are downloaded
All translation happens locally

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[–] dandimrod@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days 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.