Crow Translate 4.1.0 Released

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Hi all,

A new Release v4.1.0 for Crow Translate was published.

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Release notes:

Crow Translate 4.1.0.

New:

  • LocalAI translation backend: translate through any Ollama-, LM Studio-, FastFlowLM-, OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible server, with model discovery and configurable prompts
  • Vision-model OCR: a second OCR engine that transcribes images with a vision model, selectable alongside Tesseract in settings. I would still recommend Tesseract, unless you really need the 10% accuracy gained from the 100x larger glm-ocr
  • Modular OCR: screen capture, image drop/paste and the D-Bus interface all route through whichever OCR engine is active
  • Open an image for OCR by dropping, pasting or opening a file, with a preview overlay
  • Status strip in the main and popup windows showing what is running (capture, recognition, detection, translation, speech) and what failed
  • LibreTranslate API key support for Mozhi instances, with a toggle between the Mozhi-proxied and direct LibreTranslate API shapes
  • Report Bug action in the tray menu, pre-filling version and OS
  • WITH_TTS build option to compile out the text-to-speech engines and their UI

Fixed:

  • Capture area on Windows with multiple monitors at different scaling
  • Missing application icon on Windows and macOS; icons now load through KIconThemes with a theme fallback
  • Recovery after an unclean shutdown, which could leave the application unable to start
  • The translate-selection shortcut on Wayland
  • Hebrew on the Yandex and DuckDuckGo engines
  • The autostart desktop file name
  • Translation failures are now shown instead of being swallowed, and their messages are translatable
  • Various typos

Accessibility and i18n:

  • Icon-only buttons throughout the main window, popup window, settings dialog and languages dialog carry accessible names
  • Label and control pairs are associated for screen readers and keyboard navigation
  • User-facing error messages from every translation backend are translatable

Development:

  • Regression test suite covering the translation providers, OCR engines, settings, status model and window behaviour
  • ONNX Runtime is found from craft installs, builds against 1.27, and tolerates newer GCC. No longer using the binary build from Microsoft, telemetry neither enabled nor built.

Checksums

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Special thanks to Oleksandr Mikriukov (Oleksandr Mikriukov · GitLab) who put in most of the seminal work for the AI backends.

Coming up next: Full plugin architecture, alternative frontends, scriptable translation provider

Regards,

The Crow Translate Team

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