Word lens is an application for your iPhone, allowing you to have instant translation for words in images. The iPhone app is handy for you who’re always traveling across many borders. While you’re at a restaurant of a foreign country, you can simply use the iPhone to scan the menu and get an instant translation of the text in the scanned image.
You can also translate any foreign texts on any hard copies and the translated text is drawn back right away on the screen, which works very smoothly like magic. Basically, Word Lens uses optical character recognition to extract texts in an image and then translate it. The current version of Word Lens is able to translate Spanish to English and vice versa. It’s now up on iTunes for $4.99 only.. The video below shows the magic of this translation app..
via techcrunch
January 22nd, 2011 at 2:54 am
[...] And what about the skills she’s emphasizing? Is all that repetition and precision likely to help her children succeed? A look at the history of technology suggests that computers will eventually expand their domain of functionally to all algorithmic tasks, meaning that anything which conceivably can be repeated, even at an extremely high level, will be repeated as command lines in a computer program. (We see this happening for with self-driving cars and on-sight machine translation.) [...]
February 17th, 2011 at 8:58 am
[...] are a number of translation applications available for the iPhone, but nothing has come as simple as the Japan Goggles, which works simply [...]