This free app translates text from images into any language

Google Translate It has an option that allows you to upload an image and translate the text to another language, in real time. In addition, this platform will use the tool augmented reality (AR) of Google Lens to enable this action.

Lens is an image recognition application that uses the artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze and understand the content of images captured by the mobile device camera.

Some of the most common features and uses of Google Lens are recognizing objects to provide detailed information about them, such as product reviews, pricing, availability, and location.

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Real-time text translation is useful for understanding foreign language signs, menus, and other text.

The app can also read QR codes and provide relevant information, such as website links, contact information, etc. Google Lens is a versatile app that can help people in a variety of daily life situations, from shopping for products to translating foreign languages ​​to identifying objects and places.

And now the ability to translate text embedded in images, which appears superimposed on the original text and replaces it, is already possible on mobile with Lens, both from the Translator app using the device photo and from the image itself saved in local.

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Until now, Google Translate on the web offered options to translate text, documents, and websites. However, it has an image button that allows you to load these files and translate the texts they contain into other languages ​​supported by the translator.

The Google Lens and Translate platforms can be downloaded on any smartphone and for free in the app stores.

The platform will integrate into its system more than 30 new languages ​​that will be available in the company’s translation application, among which etomorrow, course, Hawaiian, hmong, Kurdish, Latin, Hawaiian, Luxembourgish, sundaned, Yiddish there Zulu, among others; allowing you to download even more languages ​​to use when you have no network connection or are in an area with poor connectivity.

There will also be new gestures to make translation more accessible, including the ability to select a language with fewer taps and hold down the “language” button to quickly choose a recently used language option with just a swipe.

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Additionally, users will be able to swipe down the text area on the home screen to quickly view their recent translations.

Finally, translation results are now also more readable, with a dynamic font that automatically adjusts as text is typed. “Alternative translations and dictionary definitions to make it easier to explore different meanings,” they pointed out.