Sunday, 19 August 2012

Language Translation using Camera!!!!


You will be pardoned if you think that I am insane or whether I am blogging this post while I am still under the hangover of Saturday night...

No folks, I have not lost my wits, at least not as yet..

In the current world of apps, anything is possible.

An app, aptly titled 'WordLens', uses your phone's inbuilt camera to recognize text that is viewed through the lens and then translates the text into English.

This app is launched by Quest Visual and is an augmented reality application that recognizes printed words using its optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities and instantly translates these words. 

It is also possible to use the built-in dictionary to manually type in words that need to be translated. It gives translations on the go and requires absolutely no network. 

Here is how it works


 It is available for both Android and iPhone, iPod and iPad.  

On Google Play, there are both the free demo and the full translation-competent versions of the application and is available for 3 European languages i.e. Spanish, French and Italian.
 


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