Crow Translate | New release: Crow Translate 4.1.0

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Hi all,


A new Release v4.1.0 for Crow Translate was published.

Recommended download source https://download.kde.org/stable/crow-translate/4.1.0/ to save our Gitlab from heavy load.

#### Gitlab Assets:

-   Download zip
-   Download tar.gz
-   Download tar.bz2
-   Download tar

#### Release notes:

Crow Translate 4.1.0.

New:

-   LocalAI translation backend: translate through any Ollama-, LM Studio-, FastFlowLM-, OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible server, with model discovery and configurable prompts
-   Vision-model OCR: a second OCR engine that transcribes images with a vision model, selectable alongside Tesseract in settings. I would still recommend Tesseract, unless you really need the 10% accuracy gained from the 100x larger glm-ocr
-   Modular OCR: screen capture, image drop/paste and the D-Bus interface all route through whichever OCR engine is active
-   Open an image for OCR by dropping, pasting or opening a file, with a preview overlay
-   Status strip in the main and popup windows showing what is running (capture, recognition, detection, translation, speech) and what failed
-   LibreTranslate API key support for Mozhi instances, with a toggle between the Mozhi-proxied and direct LibreTranslate API shapes
-   Report Bug action in the tray menu, pre-filling version and OS
-   WITH_TTS build option to compile out the text-to-speech engines and their UI

Fixed:

-   Capture area on Windows with multiple monitors at different scaling
-   Missing application icon on Windows and macOS; icons now load through KIconThemes with a theme fallback
-   Recovery after an unclean shutdown, which could leave the application unable to start
-   The translate-selection shortcut on Wayland
-   Hebrew on the Yandex and DuckDuckGo engines
-   The autostart desktop file name
-   Translation failures are now shown instead of being swallowed, and their messages are translatable
-   Various typos

Accessibility and i18n:

-   Icon-only buttons throughout the main window, popup window, settings dialog and languages dialog carry accessible names
-   Label and control pairs are associated for screen readers and keyboard navigation
-   User-facing error messages from every translation backend are translatable

Development:

-   Regression test suite covering the translation providers, OCR engines, settings, status model and window behaviour
-   ONNX Runtime is found from craft installs, builds against 1.27, and tolerates newer GCC. No longer using the binary build from Microsoft, telemetry neither enabled nor built.

Checksums
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    554b47f444f8ce23d51c7a46c63d2e80ef3851547290d4ae4dc19efcd9deef88  crow-translate-4.1.0-windows-cl-msvc2022-x86_64.exe
    2e169e9918db67873a794d80563721e21d2c531ce0f90a6cff3a8c784ed1a571  crow-translate-4.1.0-windows-cl-msvc2022-x86_64.7z
    fb9fe8cc6885d25fe330060471c7a9e3f4a038fc80966ebd39f5125c239f2fb4  crow-translate-4.1.0-linux-gcc-x86_64.AppImage

Special thanks to Oleksandr Mikriukov (https://invent.kde.org/oleksandrmikriukov) who put in most of the seminal work for the AI backends.


Coming up next: Full plugin architecture, alternative frontends, scriptable translation provider


Regards,
The Crow Translate Team
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