Beyond the Copy-Paste: How Image-to-Text Translation is Changing the Way We Read the World

We’ve all been there. You are holding a beautifully printed menu in a cozy café in Tokyo, a vintage French textbook in a Parisian bookstore, or a crucial document sent as a blurry JPEG by a colleague. The text is right in front of your eyes, but it might as well be written in code.

In the past, your options were frustrating: manually typing out foreign characters one by one on a virtual keyboard, or guessing the general gist and hoping for the best.