If someone told me I could spend the rest of my life loafing through Henk’s gorgeous ligne claire, I think I could die a happy enzymatic.

Which brings me to this panel, randomly discovered today. I had little idea what it said, but I loved the intrinsic layout and energy. Then I remembered that Nacktmull had previously discovered that Google-translate could make hay with this stuff. So why not?

Oh well, so it’s about red nylons and dated bragging rights. Ho hum.

And of course, two people talking past each other, something definitely amusing in its own right. Two people focused on the greatest, most trivial of issues. In any case (he said, like the Lock-picking Lawyer), what have we learned here today?

Well, I guess it’s that G-T is already pretty kick-arse at this stuff (DeepL doesn’t seem to recognise images yet), but with some limitations. For example, it didn’t naturally recognise the Dutch word “rimboe,” because it had been split in two due to the needs of the panel limits. I tried to fix it there, but is “wilderness” really the best translation? I wonder…

  • Nacktmull@lemm.eeMEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Goggle sucks at translations compared to deepl but as you mentioned correctly, deepl can not translate images.

    I googled it to be sure. Turns out deepl in fact does have an OCR feature, but only in the windows app and the mobile apps, not in the web app (which I have been using) and the macOS app. Time to switch I guess …

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Thanks for checking in to that. Hopefully with time, the options will improve.

      Unless I’m missing something, the technology exists right now to pretty-easily translate whole comics albums, but nobody as yet has put together a master interface to do such. So a person would have to do it page-by-page these days, I guess.

      The other issue is Google-Translate defaulting its results to all-caps in a certain font, but that seems like a pretty minor step in the process.