Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

i would like to know after taking a shot with fc camera,how to open it with ?i can only see that picture at my laptop rather than in n900 ?why is that so ?

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Been using this with a few things and it's REALLY nice. I would love to see a version that impliments the server locally on the N900, even if it's slower. Being able to do this off-line would be great. Even if there are two packages (a client side and server side) that would be fine. You could have the server side change the settings for the client to point to it vs your server.

Donated... please keep up the good work!

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

One thing I've learned is that in case of troubles, never assume.
I'm extremely embarassed to say: I was expecting to see more, and didn't even try the shutter button.

Now that I've been successful in using the translator, I can't get it to crash. Not that I'm bothered by this "issue" :).

Again, could be a newbie issue: How can I switch to another task from mir-translator without closing the application?

Is there way to zoom the image to make the area selection more accurate for one to avoid including unwanted regions?

Is there a way to manually input misrecognized character instead of trying to get the OCR right for that character

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

This app is completely nonfunctional on my N900. I've tried it many times, and it has never produced even a poor translation of the input text. There's no error message - just the recognized characters corresponding to the input string, and an empty translation box. Does anyone know what might be wrong? Does it not work in North America (on T-Mobile)? There must be something wrong with my setup; is an error log saved anywhere in the event that translation fails completely?

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Are we getting english to hindi in future??? we must need it pleeeeeeeeeas do it.
Thanks!

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

By chance, do you have the source and destination languages set to the same thing? The app makes a call to Google translate for translation, which can ignore requests when this happens.

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Yes, I will add it! I was waiting for Hindi recognition (as opposed to the destination language) to be supported. It seems like it technically is, but I haven't been able to get it to work. Next update will likely include Hindi as a supported destination language :).

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

No, I'm trying to do English to French translations.

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Fix the internet connection issue. Add the ability to minimize the screen. Ability to copy the text that was translated...then it's PERFECT!

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Which leads to another feature request... Sometimes I don't want to translate. Sometimes I just want to do OCR. :) If you do work toward making a package to do this on the N900, having a non-translate option would be nice. (eg, just do the OCR and present it in the current language...)

One other thought: What is the "server" running on now? I assume a PC running Linux or Windows? Would it be possible in the short term to package/zip/tar/vmware up the files and setup info needed to set up another server for this, say on a home PC? That could be useful too, both to lower load on your server, to serve as a backup, etc.

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Thanks for the feedback. It's probably a bug/typo in the definitions used for Google translate. I'll try to fix it.

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

It is a really interesting approach to text recognition & translation. Specially as the client is open source, so people can learn from it :)

Do you have any paper describing how the recognition happens, and the client/server architecture?

Also, any plans to release source code for the server part? one idea might be to offload the server side by allowing to select from various servers (there might be people interested on hosting a server, for instance).

Thanks!

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Can you please consider adding a Business Card Reader feature to this app? Please?

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

still waiting for hindi !!!!!:(

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Very nice. Kudos!

I'm also interested in the server-side component. Biz card recognition with on-device address book integration would be killer.

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

This looks great, but crashes when i ask it to recognise the text (after selecting the area). The camera still seems to work. I have CSSU and the default kernel.

Thanks for a great program!

-Edit

I thought i'd be smart and start the program in xterm so i could get an error log or something, but all it says is "Segmentation fault"

Though earlier it says repeatedly
" Expected image data not returned from V4L2. Likely caused by exess page faults (thrashing)"
and
"WARNING: frame limit hit (128), silently dropping 1 frames. You're not draining the frame queue quickly enough. Use longer frame times or drain the frame queue until empty every time you call getFrame()"

After that (presumably when i'm taking the photo) i get lines about the shutter and focus being used, and a camera image being captured. I can move the highlighting box over the writing i want to translate, then when i push "send" i get the segfault.

Not sure if that'll help haha!

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Would it be possible to optifiy the package? I had to uninstall it cuz > 3MB on RootFS is a problem for me

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Can something similar be done :):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sKlJBUtd8s

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

can you also include an option for systranet free translation?

thanks :)

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Yeah, why is the binary so huge? At 3.2 megs, it's easily the largest binary sitting in my /usr/bin.

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Hi everyone,
just installed the app and it looks great but unfortunately it keeps crashing every time just after I hit the button Send (that is after I have selected the text I would like to have translated).The camera seems to work. I have CSSU and the default kernel installed.
Any ideas??
Best regards,
Miro

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Please try to execute this in XTerminal!
Try to translate a photo! Paste the output here after it crashes! It's easier to resolve the problem.

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Smaller chunks of text works for me but crashes if I try a little bigger image with more text.

When crashed X-terminal shows me this error message:

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Hi AWasisto,
thanks for answering my question. I did as you told me to and I get the same message in Xterminal as Mara above. So I guess we have the same problem.

Thanks again,
Best regards Miro

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Nobody? Help

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Hi all,

I have been quite busy with my day job for some time now and have virtually no time to maintain this project. I have had to shut down the EC2 server that the service was running on. The project source code is completely open, for those interested in viewing it / changing it / hosting it on their own... (sorry its a bit shoddy in documentation, maybe I'll get around to it sometime). Hosted at http://code.google.com/p/cs262aproject/

Thanks.

Re: [Announce] MIR Translator - Translate text captured by the Nokia N900 mobile camera
 

Umm good luck but tell you what it never worked perfectly on my device .Hope some one takes it up and makes it perfect for our N900.