Re:Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages
by hbornfree on Friday October 26, 2018 @11:59PM
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Yes we do know of Project Naptha. Infact I personally used it a couple of years ago.
imgtranslate also has a text region identification module (through clustering mechanisms) but I have to admit it's not that great at the moment. So I've hidden it.
As far as inpainting goes, we should soon be switching to GANs which produce structurally more accurate and less blurry results.
The problem with photoshop is that - You need a lof of fonts installed. - It doesn't always render the non-latin fonts correctly - It's expensive
Re:Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages
by egfx on Friday October 26, 2018 @08:10PM
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I wouldn't be at all surprised if this IS using project naphta behind the scene. Since it's pretty much the only open source solution that does this in js. Wrapping this in a pay for play service and not providing a github to the HN community, meh.
For example in https://projectnaptha.com/, right click on the text on any of the demo images to erase, translate, or rewrite it.
Both your solution and their's produce blurry artifacts when it fails to inpaint/erase the text correctly. I wonder how you'd would sell this to marketing agencies etc if it can't produce pixel perfect results? Isn't it easier for them to just edit the text from the source photoshop file instead?