Firefox removed Yandex search option

Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by RobertMiller on Monday March 14, 2022 @03:48PM (#30677301)

I've found niche uses for Yandex; translation specifically, which can do OCR on images you upload to it. Google translate won't do that, last I checked. If anybody knows of an alternative, I'd like to hear about it.

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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by jtriangle on Monday March 14, 2022 @06:25PM (#30679272)

Their reverse image search is also often more useful than anyone else. Google in particular has gone downhill as of late, not entirely sure why. My gut says that their indexes were purged at some point.

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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by AdvancedCarrot on Monday March 14, 2022 @10:37PM (#30681124)

To be fair I've found that yandex's reverse image search has declined in quality too.

I don't think it's a matter of indexes being purged so much as a deliberate crippling of the service to make it less useful to potential bad actors.

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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by CamperBob2 on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:41PM (#30677970)

Not too long ago, Yandex's Latin translation feature was leaps and bounds ahead of Google's. Just as one anecdata point.

You can still access Yandex in Firefox, it just won't show up as a supported provider choice.

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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by verdverm on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:09PM (#30677579)

The Google Translate app has OCR and translation overlay, both live and static. Pretty slick imho

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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by RobertMiller on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:20PM (#30677721)

I'm aware of that, but it's not suitable for me. I'm looking for this functionality on my real computer, not my phone.

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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by namibj on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @01:11AM (#30681881)

Google Lens may be accessible via the web-version of Google Photos. I know that has OCR functionality with at least easily-accessible translations (iirc not overlayed on the image, though).

Not sure if Google Lens is accessible outside of the app, though.

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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by alphabetting on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @01:34AM (#30681972)

it's one click away in Chrome on any image

example here from a letter written by an Estonian elementary school kid

https://lens.google.com/search?p=ASQ0Rg3fjG6zLfDe_EcGm4W9cTi...

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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by charcircuit on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:09PM (#30677577)

Google translate's mobile app supports it along with realtime translation from your phone's camera.

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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by baud147258 on Monday March 14, 2022 @08:18PM (#30680219)

what option exists to have that functionality on a computer?

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Re:Firefox removed Yandex search option by alphabetting on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @01:36AM (#30681986)

you can right click in Chrome on any image for Google lens

https://lens.google.com/search?p=ASQ0Rg3fjG6zLfDe_EcGm4W9cTi...

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