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I want an app like Google translate where I can point my camera at cuneiform and have it translate it into a modern language. That would be amazing There are

I want an app like Google translate where I can point my camera at cuneiform and have it translate it into a modern language. That would be amazing There are thousands of tablets that need to be translated still, so this would be really useful as a starting point

emj 3y ago
Since most photos of cuneiform will be professionally taken it's going to be a bit easier. There are terabytes of images, and apparently lots of tagged data to be used [1] so not an impossible project. Just now I learned that standard is to take photos with lighting from the top left corner to be able to read these [2], that said reading physical clay tablets is a bit harder than just reading a paper. I have often been surprised that 3D objects are so hard to interpret correctly from just photos. [1] https://github.com/oi-deepscribe/deepscribe https://github.com/oi-deepscribe/deepscribe [2] https://youtu.be/dwGmyy2Aabg?t=690 https://youtu.be/dwGmyy2Aabg?t=690