# Alternative to Google Lens?

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/alternative-to-google-lens/27199
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2025-05-01T11:38:08Z
**Posts:** 5

## Post 1 by @rescuer-phoniness — 2025-05-01T11:38:08Z

This has been asked before about a year ago, wondering if anything has changed. I’m a little surprised nobody has done anything with this, even though there are many translation and ocr apps available such as Rtranslator

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## Post 2 by @anon88979181 — 2025-05-01T11:42:56Z

It’s difficult to make such an app or product in a privacy respecting way I feel. Sure, AI can help with it now but unless it’s offline and on device, a privacy forward alternative is not possible for the most part.

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## Post 3 by @anon80779245 — 2025-05-01T18:18:52Z

Probably not the answer you are looking for, but [Google Images](https://images.google.com/) still exists. I usually use it, no account needed.

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## Post 4 by @rescuer-phoniness — 2025-05-01T19:56:15Z

What I’ve been doing lately is running multimodal llms to translate text in pictures from a server at home, so its a bit better than that at least. But it’d be nice if there was a better interface for it all.

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## Post 5 by @anon80779245 — 2025-05-02T08:03:23Z

Oh if that’s the use, then they are alternatives. openrouter.ai allows you to choose an OCR engine, including Mistral OCR.