Anyone else a huge fan of JAV DVD covers/title cards? They're a really unique art form, and sometimes better than the scene itself.
All the recent Whisper AI speech-to-text stuff got me thinking - wouldn't it be cool if we could translate the text on these covers (at least the significant 'sexy' key words)? It would make them 10x hotter, and be a cool way to learn Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji.
I experimented with an app called VNTranslator...
...but the bright colors and wacky fonts really gave it a hard time (seems like it was trained exclusively on clean high contrast black/white text).
Wondering if there are any other OCR (optical character recognition) tools that would be able to translate these covers? Google vision API maybe (I think it supports Japanese)?