Seems like a extremely useful tool, just needs to not be Google, any alt recommendations welcome!
ITT - Apple users who don’t know what Lens is and how useful it is 😂
Yeah. For apple users Lens is not the simple andtoid camera app (which yes can translate text on the fly and read QR codes) - Lens is a visual search tool that can answer queries based on pictures.
Like if you take a picture of a tree you can ask what species it is, or a picture of a person you can ask where the clothes are from etc.
Stupid hardware fixing I’ve never seen before - Lens will tell me what it is
Apple is about five years behind, then will announce it as a revelation they came up with, as usual 😂
If you have the google app, on the landing page there is a camera icon. You can either use lens live that way, or upload a pic and it will tell you what plant/animal/etc it is, sometimes, or iirc it will translate texts. But it does both in real time too. I have an iPhone and use it a lot.
If you have the google app, on the landing page there is a camera icon. You can either use lens live that way, or upload a pic and it will tell you what plant/animal/etc it is, sometimes, or iirc it will translate texts. But it does both in real time too. I have an iPhone and use it a lot.
You can use Lens on iPhones just fine. It’s part of the google app.
What is it? What functionality are you looking for?
Lens is a visual search tool. Take a picture, ask it to search or answer a question based on what’s in the picture. Like take a picture of a tree and ask it what species is it
Oof. Sounds like it needs a huge back end with a ton of pre-processed data.
So, is Google Lens just an ‘reverse image search’? Never used it.
No, you can take a picture of something and it will pick out data from the image. e.g. You could photograph a menu in another language and translate it. It’s also a QR code scanner. It might do other things I don’t know about.
Nah , you can scan docs , you can also translate text in real time witth it !
