There’s a pretty cool new application spotted on the Maemo 5 Scene. PhotoTranslator is a cool little app for the Nokia N900 that allows you to translate any text from an Image, to another language.

PhotoTranslator is a neat application for Nokia N900. It allows you to translate text from pictures to various languages.
Imagine yourself walking on a street somewhere in a foreign country and you face a warning sign, but you have no idea what it says. Just take a picture of the sign and open it with PhotoTranslator, crop the text in the sign and PhotoTranslator translates the text to your language. In addition the PhotoTranslator can be used also for translating copy/pasted or typed text, not just for text from pictures.
Here’s a short video to give you a good idea of what the app does :
Pretty cool eh ? This could be IMMENSELY useful to someone like me, who lives in a country and doesnt speak/read the Language (D’oh).
Unfortunately the Creators “Cybercom Channel” havent stated when or if they’ll be be making the PhotoTranslator app available. But we can hope eh ? In the meanwhile, you can head on over to their blog and let them know what you think about it.