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    Google Translate is generally hot garbage. I’ve actually found DeepL surprisingly good especially with more “niche” languages like Finnish, although it does definitely sometimes get things hilariously wrong

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        5 months ago

        Is that DeepL’s app? I’ve never used it so I have no idea what the UI looks like and I didn’t try to translate the sign’s text with the web version.

        Edit: out of curiosity I tried out how the web version handles this sign:

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          Yeah, it’s the android version.

          To be fair, It looks like a problem with the OCR from the app rather than the translation. When I use the phone’s native OCR and copy/paste the text into DeepL Translate, I get the same result as you.

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            Ah right, that definitely makes sense. I can imagine OCR’ing Kanji could be a bit of a nightmare