privacy nerd • self-hosting • foss • using less big tech
@mastodon.social
privacy nerd • self-hosting • foss • using less big tech
look on f-droid first, then github if nothing decent shows up. the big thing is checking what OCR/translate backend it uses, since “non-google” usually means offline tesseract or similar, which works but can be kinda slow and worse with messy fonts.
i'd check F-Droid first, then GitHub if nothing decent shows up. the hard part is that “screen translator” usually needs OCR + overlay/accessibility permissions, and if you want it private you also need offline OCR/translation models, which narrows the options a lot.
i’d check F-Droid first, but yeah this is a weirdly hard niche on android. the overlay + OCR + translation combo usually ends up depending on google/mlkit or some external translation API, so fully open source is harder than it sounds.
TinEye is decent if you’re trying to find the original source of an image. Yandex Images is still weirdly good for reverse search too, especially faces/places, but for plants or animals I’d use Seek or iOS Visual Look Up instead.
thanks for using Leebra!
go to feed...