Teu2 / Image-Reader

Translates Japanese text in image snippets

IMAGE Reader

This is the repository for IMAGE Reader! IMAGE Reader is a web application i'm developing to improve my React skills as well as to get a solid understanding of asynchronous programming. This is a very early iteration of the web app and currently only translates image snippets of japanese text. This was originally supposed to be a manga translator but I realised during development that this can have way more utility than that so I decided to expand upon in!

Current Features

• Drag and drop upload feature
• Merges two images into one (for later feature)
• Supports vertical (kind of) and horizontal jp texts
• Translates jp text image snippets into a desired language (translation accuracy may very)
  • Current languages supported: (English, 한국어, Česky, Français)

Planned Features

• More language sources and targets
• Fix detection for languages with a vertical reading direction
• Add function to remove Moire patterns to detect characters on a screen

Technologies

Here are the current technologies used for this project!

• React
• Tesseract OCR
• Rapid API Translate Plus
• Axios

Getting Started

1. Clone this repository and navigate to it
2. Run npm install or yarn install to install the necessary packages
3. Run npm start or yarn start to start development
4. Happy hacking!

Demo

Check the demo folder to see output examples!