Technology – The application for Android to capture text with the camera terminal and get instant translation. English, German, Spanish, French and Italian are supported.

Google said to have thought monoglot developing its tools for real-time translation for its application Goggles.

Presented in February, this feature is now available for Android 1.6 and higher. The principle is: you point the camera in his smartphone to a word or phrase to capture it. “If Goggles recognizes the text, it offers the translation option.

52 languages

The image is sent to Google servers that deal with OCR text before passing it to Google Translate. The system can handle five languages (English, German, Spanish, French and Italian) and translated into many other languages indicates Google.

Eventually, Goggles will treat the 52 languages supported by Google Translate. This new version of the application also provides other improvements including the recognition of a greater number of objects, logos and the possibility of visual search from the photo gallery on his telephone