

The new Google Translate is available now in the Google Play store for Android phones running 2.3 Gingerbread or later. Word Lens could display the translated text right in the viewfinder itself, but is still restricted to only three language packs for translating to and from English (Spanish, Italian, and French), each of which cost $4.99. Now we can understand the meaning of these texts with photo translator. The new functionality is similar to an iOS app released in December 2010 called Word Lens, which can translate text picked up by the iPhone's camera. Surfing the Internet we often see images, photos with texts in a foreign language. It can't auto-detect what language it's trying to read, however-that's your job. Google sends the image off to its servers and gives the user back the translated phrase. Its translation tool is just as quick as the outsized competition, but more accurate and nuanced than any we’ve tried. In the app, users take a photo of their foreign blurb of choice, and then swipe their fingers to highlight the text in the photo that needs to be translated. Tech giants Google, Microsoft and Facebook are all applying the lessons of machine learning to translation, but a small company called DeepL has outdone them all and raised the bar for the field. The image feature works with all languages available in Translate, and allows users to highlight the text they want to convert to another language. The newest version of the Google Translate app can now translate text from photos, according to Android Central.
