Board Thread:Wiki Business/@comment-131168-20180221212156

Last year I showed some images from the Google Translate mobile app's ability to translate images live. The results were more funny than useful. HOWEVER, I've learned of something that was possible even back then but I just plain missed it, which ups its usefulness considerably. By pressing the icon seen at the bottom left of my screenshots there, it's possible to load up a saved image rather than having a live camera view. This allows you to use a much clearer source image, and not have to worry about it changing what it thinks it's seeing every time your hand twitches. For this example I still just used a decent photo taken with my phone, so it's not even the best case scenario.

It then highlights the parts of it where it thinks it detects readable text and lets you choose, or just hit Select All, which I did. Here's the text it detected, or at least the beginning of it.

And similarly, the beginning of its translation. Which is of course not perfect, but Google Translate never is.

Unfortunately still no way to do this outside of the mobile app, but oh well.

Also, "It is a manner story of a hot girl child who touched it all" is one of my new favorite Google Translate-isms. 