In order to translate a text, it is not at all necessary to drive it into the translator. Google Translate has released a special application for Android that allows you to translate text from a photo.
Google has updated its app for Android mobile phones. Now, with the help of an online translator, you can recognize and translate text from a picture or snapshot. This option is designed to make life much easier and save time for many people who find themselves in a foreign country without knowing the language. However, it will also be a good help for students passing foreign languages.
In order to take advantage of the new Google Translate function, the user needs to take a picture of the text using the camera on the mobile device. The photo is taken directly through the app. After that, with your finger on the picture, you need to select the part of the text intended for translation and indicate the language in which the inscription is made, since automatic recognition of the original language is not provided in the program. The application sends data to the server, from where the user receives an instant response.
According to the developers, this feature can be very useful for travelers. Being in a foreign country, a person can take a picture of a sign, road sign or a menu in a restaurant, and instantly receive a translation of the information he is interested in.
Currently, OCR and text translation is available for languages such as English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Dutch and Czech. According to Google developers, they plan to "teach" the application in other languages later.
At the moment, text translation from a photo with Google Translate is available to owners of mobile phones running Android 2.3 Gingerbread and higher. Also, a similar function was provided in the Google Goggles application developed in 2009, which also ran on the Android platform.
