Text Recognition

[Valdnet]

Steps:

1. Turn off data transfer.
2. Tap on the camera icon.
3. Select "Install".
4. Go to settings.
5. Select "Text Recognition".

Information about the downloaded language is displayed even though it was not installed:

[Valdnet]

When downloading all languages, the languages that have already been downloaded are downloaded again (the download progress wheel informs you about it):

[ManeraKai]

Should I keep the download all feature. It really is just for someone that wants to play. No one will use it IRL. I'm saying that because the download all is a little bit complicated.

[Valdnet]

It must be clear to the user what he has downloaded and what else he can download despite whether or not this feature will be used frequently. If we already add such an option, it must work properly 😉.

[ManeraKai]

I just meant the Install all button.

[Valdnet]

I just meant the Install all button.

OK. The button itself tells the user that it is installing everything.

[ManeraKai]

OK, I will fix it.

[Valdnet]

OK, I will fix it.

I don't know if you got me right. The "Install all" problem may stay that way. The user choosing to install everything is aware that he is installing all languages. And whether it re-installs them, or just the ones that are already installed, it doesn't really matter. The user only wastes a little time downloading.

But the problem described in the first post should be corrected.

[ManeraKai]

Still maturing it but I think the problem is fixed: https://github.com/ManeraKai/simplytranslate_mobile/actions/runs/1701929155

[ManeraKai]

I may deleted install all for now. Don't worry, I will added it

[ManeraKai]

Or should I? I'm really not seeing a purpose from it.

[Valdnet]

Steps:

1. Select the camera icon.
2. Select the "Install" button.

While installing "Text Recognition", I cannot see the download progress bar as it was before:

[ManeraKai]

I think it works in this one: https://github.com/ManeraKai/simplytranslate_mobile/actions/runs/1704801468

[Valdnet]

Steps:

1. Select the camera icon.
2. Select "Install".
3. Select "Cancel".
4. Go to the application settings.
5. Select "Text Recognition".

The download completes even though the installation is canceled.

[ManeraKai]

Fixed: https://github.com/ManeraKai/simplytranslate_mobile/actions/runs/1705212904

[Valdnet]

I. Steps:

1. Select "Settings".
2. Select "Text Recognition".
3. Tap on any language to install.

During the language installation, the button (installation progress) is still active and you can tap continuously, which causes the language installation process to be repeated.

II. Steps:

1. Tap the camera icon.
2. Select "Install".
3. Tap next to the loading progress window.
4. Tap the camera icon again.

The "Text Recognition" installation process is not finished yet and the application allows you to start the camera.

[ManeraKai]

Fixed: https://github.com/ManeraKai/simplytranslate_mobile/actions/runs/1708623672

[Valdnet]

Steps:

1. Tap the camera icon.
2. Select "Install".
3. Once installed, go to the "Text Recognition".

The icon for the installed language does not change.

[ManeraKai]

Isn't this the same as the first bug?

[ManeraKai]

np: https://github.com/ManeraKai/simplytranslate_mobile/actions/runs/1709182922

[Valdnet]

Can these error messages be added to the translation so that they are meaningfully understood by the user?

These are error messages from the ready plug-in and are taken from Android.

[ManeraKai]

The second one should is too technical I think. The first one I'll search for it.

[ManeraKai]

Here are they. Apparently they're untranslatable, but I can add something like if (camera.isGranted())

[Valdnet]

Here are they. Apparently they're untranslatable, but I can add something like if (camera.isGranted())

Good idea 👍. This will resolve unreadable error messages 😉.

[ManeraKai]

Did that: https://github.com/ManeraKai/simplytranslate_mobile/actions/runs/1715274831

[Valdnet]

Steps:

1. Run "Text Recognition".
2. Turn the smartphone over to a horizontal position.
3. Take a picture of the text.
4. Place the smartphone vertically.

Sometimes the application window does not return to a vertical position. The application stops after a long time.

[Aga-C]

Translation is blocked on Weblate ("main" component).

[ManeraKai]

@Aga-C it got some conflicts because I added a new string. Will fix it.

[ManeraKai]

Translation is blocked on Weblate ("main" component).

@Aga-C Fixed it... Hopefully.

[ManeraKai]

@Valdnet Fixed it too: https://github.com/ManeraKai/simplytranslate_mobile/actions/runs/1718532979

[Valdnet]

Steps:

1. Run "Text Recognition".
2. Turn the smartphone over to a horizontal position.
3. Take a picture of the text.
4. Place the smartphone vertically.
5. Turn the smartphone over horizontally again.

Sometimes the application window does not span the entire screen:

[ManeraKai]

I think this has something to do with skipping frames due to overload on the main thread. I will begin optimizing the tesseract_ocr in the next release. What do you think @Valdnet?

[Valdnet]

It also seems to me that this is a performance issue (this may be because it is in debug mode). So the tests are complete. A new version can be released 😉.

Issue to close?

[ManeraKai]

No, keep it open as we'll complete improving it unless you want to open a dedicated issue for performance thingies.

[Valdnet]

We will leave him open to possible issues 😉.

[tswistak]

Unfortunately, for me, it doesn't work. When I take a photo, loader appears and then apps hangs (there is this Android window that app is not responding). Even if I click "Wait", app crashes after a while.

My phone: OnePlus 8 Pro with Android 11.

[Aga-C]

The text recognition usually works very slow and can hang a bit. After recognition, it sometimes selects some noise what causes displaying strange characters during translation - it seems that it depends on the sharpness of the text and surface.

[Valdnet]

When I take a photo, loader appears and then apps hangs (there is this Android window that app is not responding).

I had such frequent crashes on the debug version.

[ManeraKai]

This needs optimization and some improvements on text recognition.