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You go to a terrace or a restaurant of the new normality and you find that there is no menu to order. Instead they present you with a cQR code that you must scan to get to the restaurant's website The menu is there, to see, enlarge, read and be able to choose what that you want to take A process that is comfortable if you already have an application capable of scanning QR codes quickly. And, to your surprise, we assure you that you already have it.It's called Google Lens.
And if you have an Android mobile you don't need to download new applications to scan QR codes. These apps have become a trend in recent weeks on the Google Play Store. But in reality this function is already available on your mobile thanks to the intelligence of Google. Specifically, its tool Google Lens, which is capable of recognizing objects, codes and texts through a photograph or your mobile camera in real time for different necessities. Among them having an agile and always available QR code reader. And without downloading other applications.
Scan QR Codes with Google Lens
Google Lens is a tool available through various Google services. You can find it in Google Photos when scanning content from your gallery to be able to translate texts from a photo (for example, to translate a restaurant menu), or to identify a product from a snapshot and search for it on the Internet (for example, a shoe branded).Although this depends on the mobile model and the version of the application. Therefore, it is best to go to the source and find it with the Google Assistant. And it seems that Google wants to gather all its intelligence in one place
To do this, if you have Voice Match active, say the magic words “OK Google” to bring up the Google Assistant. If this is not the case, you can also slide your finger from the bottom corner of the screen (either of the two) and lift your finger up. Or press the home button for several seconds. You also have the option to start the Google application. It not only serves as a search engine, it also hosts the Google Assistant and the Google Lens tool.
This tool is recognizable by its multicolored square iconSomething like the Instagram camera but with Google's corporate colors. Clicking on the icon activates your mobile camera and five icons are displayed at the bottom of the screen. Each one allows you to carry out one of the tasks that Google Lens is capable of: translate text, scan text and digitize it, automatic search, search for an article on the Internet or scan food.
Well, the one that interests us is the one that is activated by default, the one with the magnifying glass. This automatic mode not only searches for elements that you are framing with the camera, it is also capable of recognizing QR codes. So all you have to do is plant your phone in front of the code and wait a second for Google's intelligence to read it, interpret it and quickly take you to the website of the restaurant to see the menu.
As you can see, it is not necessary to use other applications that take up space or steal resources from your terminal for anecdotal uses. You already have a code scanning function directly integrated into the terminal. Either by the Google Assistant, the Google Photos application or directly in the Google application. Just look for the Google Lens icon and the tool automatically takes care of everything
