ABBYY Fototranslate is an application which you will never realize you needed until the time the need arises and when it does, you’ll be glad you had it. What the application does is that it enables you to translate foreign text into a language of your choice just by pointing the camera at the text. The application supports 8 languages. These languages include English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian and can translate in 30 directions between them. It uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to take in raw image data , analyses it to judge text and then converts it into the language of your choice.
Key Features and Benefits
- Quick and accurate words translation without manually entering
- Offline work without internet or network connection
- Up to 8 languages and 30 directions for translation
- One click for words and phrases input
- Detailed translation with high-quality dictionaries
One qualm which we had with the application was that it translates only one word at a time. While thus should not be a problem for converting a small amount of text such as sentences , street signs. However converting passages can quickly become painful. But it must be said that the conversions were very accurate. We were easily able to point at text and get almost instant translations , word-by-word. Another minor niggle was one which plagues almost every OCR software. The camera requires you to take an extremely stable , straight image for it to work its magic. This can become a little tough when trying to get a quick translation and should be adapted a bit considering the use case scenario.
The ABBYY Fototranslate app holds a lot of promise for frequent international travelers. Some minor niggles aside , the application works as promised. Now if ABBYY could integrate passage level text conversions, we would gladly call it a must have application ! ABBYY offers a 1 day trial version for the application. I would recommend all travelers to go ahead and buy this application or at the very least give the trial app a spin.
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