Image Recognition App Google Lens with 7 Incredible Features
You’re looking at something you don’t know about and seeing this thing or object for the first time in your life. A lot of questions will come to your mind.
What is it? Where did this thing come from?
How do you find answers to your questions in this situation?
Simply, take your phone out of your pocket, open Google lens, and take a photo of the object.
Google lens app is lurking in our android phones, and most of us don’t know what it is and how its works.
What is Google Lens, and What is the Purpose of this App?
Google lens is an AI-powered app designed to recognize images and give related results. In short, search for what you see.
It was launched on October 4, 2017, by Google for Android devices.
At first, it came as an individual app in the play store. Now you can find the lens button in the camera and Google photos.
Accuracy of Google Lens
Lens accuracy is excellent. According to a study, the accuracy for plant recognition is 92.6%.
Even I tried this for plants at my home.
For the Java plant, the app gave the wrong result.
But the Java plant was too small to be recognized as a Java plant.
For the Picual plant (Olive), it gave accurate results.
What is Google Lens, and What is the Purpose of this App?
Google lens is an AI-powered app designed to recognize images and give related results. In short, search for what you see.
It was 1st launched on October 4, 2017, by Google for Android devices.
At first, it came as an individual app in the play store. Now you can find the lens button in the camera and Google photos.
Google Lens Features
1. Translate
Translate any line or paragraph in your photos or from a book opened in front of you. But Before that, you have to download both languages.
Just open the app and focus on the line or paragraph, and click on capture.
It will automatically translate the whole paragraph.
From the bottom of the panel, you can also copy the text, listen to it, and share it.
Same as if you’re reading a book on mobile, take a screenshot. Then go to google photos and open that screenshot, and click on the lens button. Then select the translate option.
It will automatically translate it to your required language.
This feature can also work best in offline mode.
Copy Text
Copy text from a book or a photo and paste it into your file.
If yore reading a book or a piece of paper and want to copy some lines or a paragraph.
Open copy text feature in google lens.
Then take a photo of the paragraph and select the required lines you want to copy. Select the copy text option at the bottom.
You can also listen to the text and translate it to any language from the options at the bottom.
Search Anything on Google Lens
The search option comes with a lot of features. You can search for anything just by taking a snap.
- You can take a pic of the bar code and search for information about any product.
2. Scan the QR code to get information about the product or any kind of link.
3. Get information about an animal or plant in your backyard.
4. Book information and reviews.
5. Scan Business cards and save contact and email information on your mobile phone.
6. Capture the painting and get the information about the artist.
7. Take a pic of landmarks or buildings to get information about buildings and landmarks.
In short, you can take a snap of anything and can get related information about it.
Homework
G-lens can solve problems, especially math problems.
Just point out the camera toward several questions. It will highlight all. Then tap on a specific question you want to solve, and you will get the complete solved question.
Shopping
You see nice shoes or a beautiful dress and want to know where to buy them? What is its price?
Just use the shopping feature in Google lens, and it will show all the e-commerce platforms where you can buy it.
Places
Lense can identify historical places, landmarks, skyscrapers, and billboards of shops and can tell you the history or details about buildings and opening hours of shops.
This feature is not efficient to use everywhere, but with time it is improving.
Dining
This feature allows us to choose the popular dishes in a restaurant.
Make a snap of the restaurant menu on Google lens, and it will automatically point out the popular meals.
Also, if you want a recipe for any meal, it will show all details at the end of the screen panel.
Google Lens Compatible Phones
Google Lens is available on all android phones with Marshmallow and all upper versions.
You don’t have to download Apk. Just open the Google play store on your phone and search for Google lens.
The app requires some permissions before opening.
However, you have to download Google photos and the Google app before using Google lens.
Then take a shot from your iPhone camera and open the photo from Google photos. Then tap on the lens icon at the end of the screen to scan the image.
Reviews About App
The overall rating of Google lens in the play store is 4.5. That is an excellent rating. It shows that most users are satisfied with the result they are getting.
But there are some poor ratings regarding accuracy. According to some users, you have to make several snaps before getting a good result. Also, when it’s wrong, it is way off from getting accurate results.
On the other hand, the app requires the Google app to run consecutively in the background. It is intimidating for some people.
Google lens is AI-based technology. The definition of artificial intelligence is learning from mistakes and feedback, making it better and better until the system achieves intelligence. We hope that Google Lens will accomplish intelligence someday. And it will give accurate results far better than today.
