This is all you can do with the Google Lens camera

If you have an Android phone with the Google Assistant active and an Android version equal to or higher than Android 6 Marshmallow, you have Google Lens. Google Lens is a camera app, which you can download separately or use through the Assistant, that uses artificial intelligence to detect the image and provide you with different actions and information about it. Don't know how to start using it? Don't worry, because we're going to try to answer all your questions about this practical application that, once you start 'playing' with it, you won't be able to stop.

First steps: how to access Google Lens

First of all, a question. Do you have Google Assistant set up? Hold down the home button on your phone for a couple of seconds. In this way, you will invoke the Google Assistant and you will be able to see if it is configured or not. If it is not, follow the steps and have it detect your voice using the command 'Ok Google' If you already have it activated, a small screen will appear in which you will be able to read 'Hello, how can I help you? Well, look at this screen, more specifically at an icon that should appear in the lower right. An icon with the Google Lens logo. You got it? Press it!

We can also get the Google Lens app from the Android app store.This is a very practical way to have direct access to the Google Lens camera on the mobile itself, without the need to invoke the Google Assistant. The download file of this application, free and without , is 7 MB, so you can download it without your data suffering more than necessary.

At that point you're ready to start using Google Lens. What do you want Google Lens for? We are going to tell you some practical examples of how you can use this simple utility.

Why use Google Lens?

Text, dates, addresses and phone numbers

Search for any text, whether it is taken from a book, the web, or an advertisement. Does not matter. If you see something written and need information about it, or copy a part of the text to share it with another person (imagine you see something on the web, with your laptop , and you want to share the text through WhatsApp Web from the Telegram app for Windows), save a contact in the calendar, add an event to the calendar... Let's go in parts!

Copy, translate and share text

Point the Google Lens camera at the text. Automatically, the app will offer you results about relevant content that it sees in the text. For example, we have taken a photo of this same text and it offers us information about Google Lens. If we want to share the text, we simply click on it, select and share It's that easy. Also, as we can see in the screenshot below, we can also translate text.

Add a phone number to the phonebook

You see an advertisement on the street. You are looking for a flat and you see a rental at a good price. What better than being able to take a photo and have Google Lens automatically detect your phone? Or they give you a business card and, of course, you want to keep the contact.Yes, you can do it the old-fashioned way, but isn't it better to take a photo of it and have Google take care of everything? Take the photo to the card and tap on the phone numberYou will see a series of icons with which you can interact. Click on 'Add' and that's it. You can also call the business directly.

Create events through banner ads

See a billboard advertising something you can't miss? Then point the Google Lens camera and create an event about it. You won't forget any concert or party anymore.

Scan products and search for them on the web

You are in a store and you want to know if you can find the product you are holding cheaper online or in another store.What are you doing? Then you take out the Google Lens camera and scan the barcode The product will appear and you can search for it on the web to compare prices or find more information about it.

We have tested it with books.

Also with personal hygiene products.

To give us information about movies,old and recent.

Also with album covers. On this occasion, we will have direct access to Spotify, YouTube, events, etc.

Sites and places of interest

You go down the street and find a monument you don't know. Why don't you take a picture of it and have Google Lens tell you what it is? You can also identify plants and animals, although with the latter Google Lens may have some trouble identifying them correctly. We have tried it, for example, with some flowers and here is the result. We have to say that the app has hit the nail on the head after several unsuccessful attempts. At least, we believe that, when we see the relationship between the image and what Google offers us.

In the case of these two domestic cats… things did not go too well and he did not recognize that they were two common cats.

As for historical monuments, Google Lens recognized two without any problems.

This is roughly everything you can do with the Google Lens camera Our advice? That you try it with everything you see and experiment with it. Its possibilities are many and very practical, so now you know. All you have to do is download the app or invoke the Google Assistant. So simple and easy.