Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages

Re:Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages by hbornfree on Thursday October 25, 2018 @03:34AM (#18299150)

Hello everyone! The creator of imgtranslate here. Happy to discuss anything on tech and product. The current stack uses a good dose of traditional(OpenCV) and neural implementations. And we're actively pursuing LSPs(Language Service Providers) and marketing agencies to try it out.

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Re:Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages by heavenlyblue on Friday October 26, 2018 @06:07PM (#18313045)

How are you going to compete with Google Translate?

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Re:Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages by hbornfree on Saturday October 27, 2018 @12:02AM (#18314286)

By integrating the tool to professional CAT tools we're guessing. Businesses almost always never buy machine translated output

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Re:Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages by transpy on Friday October 26, 2018 @05:53PM (#18312969)

Interesting, I can have an LSP try this. So, if it's not OCR, what is it? What is it doing?

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Re:Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages by hbornfree on Saturday October 27, 2018 @12:04AM (#18314289)

It does OCR ofcourse. Pipeline is roughly:

OCR -> Text property identification -> Inpainting -> Region averaging -> Translation -> Fitting

Please have the LSP try it out and see if offers some value.

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Re:Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages by feiss on Friday October 26, 2018 @10:21PM (#18314026)

Great stuff, congrats!

Just a small (but important because is the hero image) correction from a spanish native speaker: the earth is female, so it should be "Hay que protegerla", ending in "a".

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Re:Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages by hbornfree on Saturday October 27, 2018 @12:01AM (#18314284)

Thank you for the feedback! Will fix it right away

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