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In-game translator at your disposal · By Godnoken

Couldn't get it to translate something, Couldn't get it to work

A topic by Visual Novel Player created Apr 17, 2025 Views: 250 Replies: 3
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Hello! I have been researching various screen translators for the past few weeks and your software is really promising so I paid for it. Unfortunately, just like most screen translator in the market, yours have failed as well mainly because of "Difficulty of use" compared to Google Lens.  For example, Google lens can translate most things regardless of the font style, orientation, and can translate "anything" from poster, video, and even an old blurry photograph of letters. To be fair, Google is a mega-corporation but what is not fair is when you paid for something that doesn't work. It drowns me in disappointment to witness that the app is unable to translate a visual novel games and I tried both SFW and NSFW with almost document looking font style. I made couple of tries to make things happen but nothing happens and I couldn't find the problem or the solution.  I am more than happy to pay more money to get it to work on most games on DLsite and your app will instantly be ahead of majority of screen translators in the market. Thank you!

Developer (1 edit)

Hello there!

It is unfortunate to hear that you haven't been able to use it for your purposes. Would you mind sharing a screenshot or two of the type of fonts that you haven't been able to capture?

I am very aware that the OCR capture method we're currently using is far from ideal for anything visual novel esque. An implementation of a different OCR engine is in the works, and it should be released shortly after our next update, which will add a desktop mode as well as an "attached" mode that will support all games (but only if you run in windowed or borderless fullscreen). This OCR engine should improve the accuracy, but there is still a lot of further improvement to be made.

Regarding paying for something that doesn't work - There's always been a free demo for anyone to try before buying, and the app only costs 5$ which is far less than what it should be priced. :)

Thank you for the feedback!

Hello! I saw the update, downloaded, and have tried it. Your screen translator app went from "Not usable" to "hit and miss translation".  An improvement regardless.  The app after the update have become more versatile and can now translate mostly anything, unfortunately the translation is a hit and miss, sometimes it work, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it can't read, sometimes it just crash. The app needs a better font style and font size recognition because most games uses custom fancy fonts and sizes regardless of genre and this should be prioritize in development and this one is big problem. Then development can move on into app compatibility with games other stuff if there are spare time. I will come back in three-four months, I will test both functionality and translation accuracy on 3 random dlsite games that has Japanese and English supported. The app must:

  1. Translate the Japanese text to English text closely to the official English text or English Version of the game (It will be an RPG maker)
  2. Be able to translate obscure and fancy fonts and sizes
  3. Able to finish at least 2/3 of the 3 random dlsite games using the app translator, can only app crash 3 times

will donate 25$ if "ALL" conditions passed and 35$ if and only if it manage to translate a game that has zero English support or version after it passed atleast 2 dlsite games. 

Happy Easter Godnoken

Developer

Hi bud,

The update that I was referring to (OCR engine) e.g. 0.3.5 was not released when you wrote your post. I believe there must have been some compatibility issues with the games that you tried, and those must have been fixed in the 0.3.0 update since you noticed an improvement.

I agree that text capture & translation by far are the most crucial things to focus on. It is going to be my main focus moving forward.

I hope that 0.3.5 will work better for you. :)

Happy Easter!