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Word Lens Translates Words Inside of Images. Yes Really.

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Ever been confused at a restaurant in a foreign country and wish you could just scan your menu with your iPhone and get an instant translation? Well as of today you are one step closer thanks to Word Lens from QuestVisual.

The iPhone app, which hit iTunes last night,  is the culmination of 2 1/2 years of work from founders Otavio Good and John DeWeese. The paid app, which currently offers only English to Spanish and Spanish to English translation for $4.99, uses Optical Character Recognition technology to execute something which might as well be magic. This is what the future, literally, looks like.

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Bonnes Nouvelle! Word Lens Parle Français

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Remember Word Lens? That crazy, awesome mobile application that translated words inside of images, like road signs, posters, menus, and the like, from Spanish to English (and vice versa)? Well, now the app has added a third language to its repertoire: French. With the most recent app update, Word Lens can translate from English to French and back again, but not between French and Spanish.

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Google Has Acquired Quest Visual, The Maker Of Camera-Based Translation App Word Lens

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Word Lens wowed when it debuted back in 2010, with its tech that could translate the wording on signs captured with your smartphone’s camera automatically. Now, Quest Visual, the maker of that app, has been acquired by Google, the company announced today on its site. With the acquisition, Google gets Quest Visual’s tech, which it […]

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Google Translate gets in-app translations on Android, offline mode on iOS

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Google is launching an update to its Translate apps for iOS and Android today. There are three main parts to today’s announcement: offline support for iOS, Tap To Translate on Android, and Word Lens support for Chinese across platforms. With this new version, the Translate team is bringing offline support to iOS. This feature, which […]

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