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<p>Microsoft wants to bring its translation apps on Android and iOS up to par with the Windows mobile experience. The company recently announced that offline translation and the ability to translate text in images would land on the rival mobile platforms.</p><p>Microsoft is not adding the two new features to both Android and iOS, however. Instead, Android will get the offline functionality while iOS gets image translation via optical character recognition (OCR).</p><p>At least for now. Over time, Microsoft intends to add offline capability to iOS and bring OCR to Android. Both features have been on Translator for Windows Phone since 2010.</p><h2>We’re not saying we’re better than Google Translate, but...</h2>
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