2014-02-06 14:56 GMT+01:00 Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email protected]>:

>
> It would be possible to create a non-GPL app from scratch which gets
> translations from an apertium installation running on a server. The app
> creator should probably run their own api server since api.apertium.org
> apparantly is down a lot. But an online translator app sort of takes
> away one of the main selling points – why not just use a web site in
> that case? You can even have OCR; iOS 6+ allows web pages access to the
> camera with a simple HTML tag, so you could make a web site that lets
> you take a picture of some Kyrgyz with your phone, run it through OCR
> and Apertium on the server and send back the translation in Kazakh. And
> the web page would run not only on iOS.
>
>
There's already a (really old-fashioned) app that does that, for
Catalan-related langpairs

https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/traductor-softcatala/id447196146?mt=8

It's basically a REST client over the API server at SoftcatalĂ 

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