PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

Few weeks ago we released a video about PhotoTranslator application running on N900.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adPdZzMlm3M

Because people were very interested in about getting this application in use, we decided to release an alpha version of the PhotoTranslator.

It's available at extras devel repository, but it's in alpha state now, so we don't guarantee that it would work perfectly. More information about the current release, unimplemented and becoming features can be found from:

http://www.cybercomchannel.com/?p=99

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

Awesome n900 ftw

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

Interesting app just giving it a try now. It is quite a big download but the App is optified so no worries about rootfs.

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

Yes, the size is pretty large because the language support. We also needed to remove few languages in order to make package size smaller. Otherwise it would have been nearly 100M:)

In the future, PhotoTranslator will only contain few default languages, but then it will provide a possibility to download required language packages separately. This way it is up to the user, which languages he/she wants to use.

Thanks for testing PhotoTranslator.

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

Would it be possible to release tessaract as a separate package so that other applications can use it without needing 2 large copies of the binary and data?

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

I second this idea. The (temporary) solution I use right now is simply to create symlinks so that I can call tesseract from the command line just by typing "tesseract".

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

I love it! As an ex-pat, this will be extremely useful for translating various mail etc that gets sent to us.

I did have to 'fix' a small perms problem:
chmod +x /opt/phototranslator-alpha/tesseract/tesseract

I look forward to future versions (especially if they'll improve the speed!)

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

IMHO this must be done to call this software stable. Otherwise it may lead to conflicts with other packages.
Optional languages can be provided as separate packages. Then application-manager gives user ability to select needed languages.
Correct dependencies would guarantee, that tessaract is automatically installed if your application is installed.

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

Very cool, again it would be nice to have tesseract and each language pac something separately installable, but I completely understand that it's a massive hassle to to that if all you want to do is release an app that people are desparate to get their hands on.

For me the 'capture a picture' doesn't work, I presume it's just not enabled in the alpha yet?

in any case, nice job, good to see it available

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

Tested with my internal medicine textbook (Harrison's)...The app works great! OCR and translation are almost perfect! Thnx!

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

wow......... really impressed.... now this is a tool i can use alot!
Well done!

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

I have tried it on a few texts and it doesn't work at all!

My remarks:
- the middle button to take a picture does nothing
- if I select a bit of text to translate from a previous picture, the OCR comes up with garbage (all / - \ # $ % characters)
- translation of text that is entered via the keyboard works fine

Looking forward to a working version ;)

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

It's not supposed to work yet :)

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

ah, ok then ;)

Re: PhotoTranslator Alpha for N900 Available in extras devel
 

Program crashes whenever it attempts translation for me. I take a photo, then open PhotoTranslator and select correct language (to and from), then I use the left button and select the photo I need translated and the app immediately closes.
How should I go about fixing this (I'm weak on Linux and Maemo so please be specific)?

I restarted the program a number of times - No change.
I rebooted w/ batt out - No change.
I uninstalled and reinstalled the program - No change.