Techniques for distributed optical character recognition and distributed machine language translation

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• receiving, at a mobile computing device having one or more processors, an image of an object comprising a text in a source language;
• obtaining, at the mobile computing device, optical character recognition (OCR) results for the object and the text to obtain an OCR text;
• determining, at the mobile computing device, the source language of the OCR text;
• determining, at the mobile computing device, a degree of translation complexity for performing machine language translation of the OCR text from the source language to a target language;
• transmitting, from the mobile computing device to a server, at least a portion of the OCR text based on the degree of translation complexity;
• receiving, at the mobile computing device from the server, machine language translation results;
• obtaining, at the mobile computing device, a translated OCR text based on the machine language translation results;
• and
• outputting, at a display of the mobile computing device, the translated OCR text.

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• receiving, at a mobile computing device having one or more processors, an image of an object comprising a text in a source language;
• determining, at the mobile computing device, a degree of optical character recognition (OCR) complexity for performing OCR on the image to obtain the text;
• transmitting, from the mobile computing device to a first server, at least a portion of the image based on the degree of OCR complexity;
• receiving, at the mobile computing device from the first server, OCR results;
• obtaining, at the mobile computing device, an OCR text based on the OCR results;
• determining, at the mobile computing device, a degree of translation complexity for performing machine language translation of the OCR text from the source language to a target language;
• transmitting, from the mobile computing device to a second server, at least a portion of the OCR text based on the degree of translation complexity;
• receiving, at the mobile computing device from the second server, machine language translation results;
• obtaining, at the mobile computing device, a translated OCR text based on the machine language translation results;
• and
• outputting, at a display of the mobile computing device, the translated OCR text.

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• obtaining, at a mobile computing device having one or more processors, a text in a source language;
• determining, at the mobile computing device, the source language of the text;
• determining, at the mobile computing device, a degree of translation complexity for performing machine language translation of the text from the source language to a target language;
• transmitting, from the mobile computing device to a server, at least a portion of the text based on the degree of translation complexity;
• receiving, at the mobile computing device from the server, machine language translation results;
• obtaining, at the mobile computing device, a translated text based on the machine language translation results;
• and
• outputting, at a display of the mobile computing device, the translated text.