5 Google Lens functions that you need to know how to use on your Android mobile

Google Lens is one of those applications that becomes essential when you know all its functions, since you can use it in different contexts.

It already has a powerful combination of features, and Google is now empowering the app with a number of new features. Check out these new features and others that have already become user favourites.

Copy texts of paper notes with your mobile phone

This is one of the most practical functions since it saves having to take photos of the notes or write them again on the mobile.

With Google Lens you only have to point the mobile camera towards the note, select the text that interests you and click on the “Copy text” option. Automatically you will have the text on the clipboard to paste it into any note application, chats or email. Simple and practical.

And from the last update you can also copy the text to send it to another device The only condition for this dynamic is to start Sign in to Chrome on the second device as it will sync through the browser. In this case, we follow the same steps as the previous process, but we choose the option that we see in the image.

A practical dynamic to have an online version of all the notes that are going around the house, or to save fragments of texts from books or photocopies.

Look up the meaning of words or related information

When we are studying or reading and we find terms that we do not know almost as a reflex action we go to Google. We type the search term and wait for Google to return the results.

Google Lens facilitates this process, since it will simply suffice to focus on the word or phrase with the mobile camera to start a Google searchIn this way, we can search for a definition, expand the topic, see related videos, among other actions. And the whole process is done without typing a single word.

So you can get on with the reading or work you're doing while Google Lens does the searching for you. And if you combine it with the previous function you will have an interesting tool to add additional information to your notes as you study.

Translate words and listen to their pronunciation

A function that can get us out of trouble if we are traveling or testing our knowledge of another language is the one that allows to translate any word or phrasejust by pointing the mobile camera.

Google Lens will automatically detect the text, so you just have to choose the translator icon to automatically translate into your language in the same interface, as you see in the image:

And if what interests you is the pronunciation of a word then follow the same steps and select “Listen”. This dynamic works with any text, no matter if it's written on a street sign, in a brochure, in a book or just a photograph.

Some of these features come with the latest version of Google Lens on Android, so you'll have to wait for the update to try them out.But you can keep practicing with the functions that are already available in the app, and go around the house looking for information about different items, identifying objects or practicing that new language that you still have pending.