Vertical japanese doesn't translate well about ugt

[SethRobinson]

Yeah, Google's stuff can't handle this yet.

It should be possible to manually piece characters together and send that for translation (we do have the position of each character on the screen, not just each "word" or whatever) but I currently don't have plans to add this.

[SethRobinson]

Note, this has changed! Google does properly handle vertical text now, when testing with examples on https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/vertical-text/index.en the OCR does fine.

And while it's possible to click and hear the correct Japanese (or English translation) being spoken, it's formatted horizontally (by UGT) so it's difficult to read.

Will have to give that some thought on formatting, but good to know the Google side can do it now.

[Meerkov]

I found out apparently you can also try to set the model to "builtin/latest", which gives the newest features. Apparently vertical text detection was available in that model for 2 years, according to a blogpost I saw. It might be worth trying that setting to see if it makes a difference in the quality of the detection