[MeeGo Harmattan] TranslateAll : Translate to or from over 50 languages !

TranslateAll is a A language translator based on Google Translate API.

- Supports 50 languages
- Voice output for translated text
- Translates text when target language is changed
- Copy translated text. 

Download from OVI Store  

[MeeGo Harmattan] Translate Mee! : Translate to or from over 30 languages !

Translate Mee! is an easy to use and convenient tool for translating to or from over 30 languages. Not only it translates but also it can speak the translated text. To copy the translated text just long tap it. Powered by Bing.

Download from OVI Store ;)

mir-translator : Translate text from pictures to various languages !

mir-translator is an application for translating text in photos taken from the N900 camera (like PhotoTranslator). Supports novel interactive recognition techniques.

Leverages the FCam API, as well as custom-modified recognition web service based on Google Tesseract. Uses Google Translate for translation.

Ps : It takes a lot of time to tranlate a simple text, hope this will be adressed in future updates 

Phototranslator : alpha !

Do you remember phototranslator?

Well, it's available since testerday at Extras-devel !

As you probably have understood already, the PhotoTranslator is not a final version yet and it lacks features. It may, or it may not work as you expect, but as stated before, use it at your own risk. They also needed to remove bunch of languages from the application because they increased the package size to 95M.

PhotoTranslator supports only the following languages from tesseract i.e. the languages that it can read from the images (OCR) at the moment:

English
Finnish
German
Spanish
Portuguese

NOTE: This means that you can translate, but you can only use the OCR for the languages listed above. The workaround for this is that you can write the text manually and then translate it.

PhotoTranslator Beta Features

For beta version they are planning to implement the following set of features:

- Separate package for each supported language
- User can download different language packages via PhotoTranslator
- Disabled buttons for languages that are not installed
- Support for capturing images with PhotoTranslator

More details will follow later.


Enjoy !

PhotoTranslator : Translate text from pictures to various languages !

PhotoTranslator is a neat application for Nokia N900. It allows you to translate text from pictures to various languages.

Imagine yourself walking on a street somewhere in a foreign country and you face a warning sign, but you have no idea what it says. Just take a picture of the sign and open it with PhotoTranslator, crop the text in the sign and PhotoTranslator translates the text to your language. In addition the PhotoTranslator can be used also for translating copy/pasted or typed text, not just for text from pictures.

KaiLehtinen stated : The PhotoTranslator project started as a technology study for Nokia N900: how easy would it be to make useful software with some actual purpose for N900 using Qt? I found it to be very easy indeed. Although Qt 4.6 for N900 was far from being ready (at December 2009) it still provided me the necessary tools for creating working Hildon-like software without too much extra work. At that point the Hildon-looks on UI needed some N900 specific Qt code which means that using the same UI code directly on other platforms is not possible. However the code can be modified to be cross-platform quite easily.

What happens under the hood?

PhotoTranslator deploys two Google APIs. For parsing text from pictures I used Google’s tesseract-ocr (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) library that is installed as binary to N900 with PhotoTranslator. For translating the text to other languages I used Google’s Language API (http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/) which obviously is used through HTML queries. So basically what I did was just that I glued these two APIs work together and wrapped them into nice UI for which Qt is a very powerful tool.
Here is a little demo of the PhotoTranslator in action:

This is a demo and reference project, not available i guess for the public by now, stay tuned !