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Status: Untriaged
Owner: ----
EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: 2019-07-09
OS: Linux , Windows , Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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[Feature Request] When translating a page also translate text in images

Project Member Reported by kylehase@google.com, Sep 1 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to a page in another language
2. Chrome will offer to translate. Click "Translate"
3. Chrome will translate only text on the page

What is the expected behavior?
All text not in the user's language should be translated including text in images.

What went wrong?
The translate feature simply does not attempt to use images since OCR is far more intensive than scraping text.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 60.0.3112.101  Channel: n/a
OS Version: OS X 10.12.6
Flash Version: 

From the early days of the Web text has been displayed in image files for effect and this will likely continue since it's easier to do in raster tools than CSS.  Google Translate on mobile is now powerful enough to translate images through the camera in real-time for many languages. Chrome should be able to do that too.
 
Components: UI>Browser>Translate
Labels: Needs-Triage-M60 M-63
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
This seems to be a feature request. Hence, marking it as untriaged for further inputs from dev team.

Thanks...!!
Labels: OS-Linux OS-Windows
Labels: Pri-3
NextAction: 2019-07-09
Downgrading P2s that haven't been modified in more than 6 months, which have no component or owner.

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