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funny they gave cyrilic as an example. I've recently been on Ukraine and wanted to test it out for fun. scanned part of a menu (capital letters) while in a rest
by zalew 14y ago
funny they gave cyrilic as an example. I've recently been on Ukraine and wanted to test it out for fun. scanned part of a menu (capital letters) while in a restaurant with wifi and the result was something like "3KOUIJL3KLJLKOOOASA3IIU". even though Ukrainian!=Russian, with such scan results you can't even attempt to translate it.
btw out of curiosity I've tested a few google mobile apps while traveling. my experience:
translate - needs internet and failed reading cyrilic.
google maps - offline caching didn't work at all, I didn't know how to get to my cached maps as when I start maps it raises a message that I need internet connection and didn't let me go further.
google drive - I pressed 'offline' and wanted to create a document and it says I need internet connection. lol.
- jgfoot 14y agoYou need to tell it that the source language is Russian; if you tell it the source language is English, it will try to recognize Cyrillic characters as Roman, which doesn't work. Also, it looks like the scan option is not available for Ukrainian at all. But for something like a restaurant menu, you're probably fine telling it the language is Russian--there is a high degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages.
- zalew 14y ago> there is a high degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages. I know, and I can read cyrilic. > You need to tell it that the source language well, if it wasn't a bug, now I guess I faced a usability issue (using translate online it usually auto-detects the lang so I'm not used to choosing it), that's probable, and one friend of mine also told me he got gibberish from scanning cyrilic. still one case stands: the need of a working data connection when you are travelling abroad is an obstacle.
- option_greek 14y agoThe difference between auto guessing it online and during scanning is that it has to do one more round of guessing during OCR which is why it is more error prone.
- nodata 14y agogoogle maps with offline cached maps works fine for me. are you on a recent version?
- zalew 14y agohow do you access them? turn your phone into airplane mode and open google maps fresh. I get the loading spinner followed by a 'network failure. this aplication requires a working data connection' message .
- nodata 14y agoYou didn't answer my question: are you using an up-to-date version of Maps? If you are, go the My Places> Offline to see your maps. WFM in airplane mode.