Editor's review
This tool lets you make sense of language text in images.
This application, the GlyphViewer, will support both recognizing and translating several language text strings, including Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. This tool has versions in Windows, MacOS and Linux. This application uses an OCR engine to read the language text in images. The OCR engine can handle more than 40 modern languages that include English, French, Chinese, Japanese and many more. As for hieroglyphics, the application uses a library of more than 800 symbols. It also includes more than 10,000 hieroglyphs combination symbols or hieroglyphic words. The images can be in JPG, PNG and GIF. By getting the texts in images translated, you could get SEO advantages. It will let you add content to your images such as multiple translations, image regions, glyph, words, etc. The more languages mean better Image SEO. Image could be exported in several formats, including HTML.
This tool will let even non-technical users to create complex ads for international campaigns. The copy in the ad could be addressed to different language speaking audience. You will be able to serve native language slogans to people. They could be linked to different regions of the image where users need to be directed. Audience will be able to get the ad message in language they understand. This can help when browsing news sites as you will now be able to understand any text in one of the supported languages. You will actually be able to understand the actual hieroglyphics on images from Egyptian temples and other monuments; at least, the hieroglyphics that have already been decoded. The hieroglyphs and the words supported by this tool will give you that capacity. This is a very good tool.
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