translategemma-4b-it is a lightweight, state-of-the-art open translation model from Google, built on the Gemma 3 family and optimized for high-quality multilingual translation across 55 languages. It supports both text-to-text translation and image-to-text extraction with translation, enabling workflows such as OCR-style translation of signs, documents, and screenshots. With a compact ~5B parameter footprint and BF16 support, the model is designed to run efficiently on laptops, desktops, and private cloud infrastructure, making advanced translation accessible without heavy hardware requirements. TranslateGemma uses a structured chat template that enforces explicit source and target language codes, ensuring consistent, deterministic behavior and reducing ambiguity in multilingual pipelines. ...