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Little by little Google is updating its augmented reality tool Google Lens. As promised at the Google I/O 2019 developer event, the tool would integrate the amazing feature of translation of text in real time Something that we had already seen in Google Translate, but that is now integrated into this new tool to make its operation more comfortable and complete. This is how you can take advantage of it.
You just need to have the Google Lens app installed, available from the Google Play Store. And update it to its latest version. At the moment, these functions have been launched progressively That is, they are reaching users with a dropper, spreading by region to avoid any bug or malfunction that tarnishes their performance. This way Google will be able to correct and repair it before it affects a large number of people. So if your Google Lens app won't update: be patient. Hopefully it will happen in the next few days or weeks.
Once you do this your layout will change. Until now it is based on the operation of the camera, with a series of dots that fly across the image in real time to indicate that content has been detected.Before the update, if you want to translate some text that the camera captures, you have to click on the screen to select the lines of text that you want to translate and check this option. With this, Google Translate (application opens) comes into play to display the transcribed text in the detected language and in Spanish. Well, this changes.
From now on the Google Lens interface is somewhat more complex, although really useful to use. And it is that now it has functions in the form of a carousel at the bottom of the screen. All this without stopping using the camera. In this way we can look for the text translation option so that the application takes care of translating everything on the screen. Of course, now it happens in real time.
This assumes that the application detects the text, translates it, and plants it over the imageThus, we can see the translation in its original format, almost as if by magic. The effect is striking and really striking, although the font is not always copied perfectly, nor is it possible to fit the translated text into the same space. But it is useful to have the best and most natural translation experience possible. Without having to jump to Google Translate or perform extra taps or clicks. Everything is fluid and automatic.
Letter recommendations
Watch out, because real-time translation is not the only novelty that has come to Google Lens (or is coming). Along with real-time text recognition, culinary recommendations also arrive. And it is that, if we take advantage of the virtues of Google Lens in a restaurant we will also be able to know which are the most chosen and best valued dishes on the menu
To do this, all you have to do is open the application to activate the camera. Then we choose from the carousel of functions the one with the icon of the knife and fork From this moment on we can point to the card in front of us to recognize all dishes. We will automatically see marked in orange, with a star, the recommendations that other users have made on Google Maps. But there is more.
If we want the specific data of the different reviews of the dishes we just have to click on any of them. Instantly, Google Lens displays your card with all the information, photos and comments about the restaurant and its dishes from Google Maps.
