Point/Shoot/Translate is an experiment with computer vision and machine translation.
The ideia was to create a web app that would allow a user to know how something's called in different languages just by using their phones and taking a picture (or uploading one, if they're using a computer).
The system is working as a static webapp and was built for the Static Showdown 2015 hackathon.
It uses several APIs, namely:
- Imgur for hosting
- Alchemy Vision for extracting meaning (in English)
- Yandex Translate API for translation
- Yahoo's YQL for bypassing CORS
It was built using React and Fluxxor.