AI Image Translator
Hi everyone,
I’m a developer who has been in the industry for about 10 years, but I recently decided to step out of my comfort zone and start building my own "micro-SaaS" projects. I wanted to share my latest experiment: Image Translator AI.
The "Why"
The idea actually came from watching my wife struggle with academic papers. She often needed to translate complex diagrams and charts, but most tools either failed to recognize the text or completely ruined the original layout, making the translation hard to follow in context.
What it does
I built this to solve two specific pain points:
Layout Preservation: It tries to "seamlessly" replace the text within the image so the original design stays intact.
Contextual Accuracy: Instead of simple OCR, it uses AI to understand the context of the image, which is much better for technical or academic content.
The Tech
I’ve been experimenting with "vibe coding"—trying to move fast from idea to deployment. It's built on a modern stack (Next.js) and leverages recent advancements in vision models to handle the heavy lifting of image processing and translation.
Looking for feedback
It’s definitely still a work in progress. There are still edge cases with very complex backgrounds, and I'm constantly refining the prompt engineering to get the best results.
I’m not here to "sell" it, but I would genuinely love to get some "tough" feedback from this community. Does the UI feel intuitive? Is the translation quality meeting your expectations for a tool like this?
If you have a moment to check it out, I’d really appreciate it: https://www.imagetranslatorai.app/
Happy to answer any questions about the build or the journey so far!
Best,
Irving