Question

A travel app lets tourists point their phone camera at a printed restaurant menu written in a foreign language. The app must read the text visible in the photo and then display it translated into the user's language. Which AI capability is primarily needed to obtain the text from the menu image before translation can occur?

Accepted Answer

Optical character recognition (OCR) to detect and read the printed text in the image

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Image classification to assign a single category label to the whole photo

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Sentiment analysis to determine the emotional tone of the menu

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Speech synthesis to convert the printed words into spoken audio