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Google enables in-app image translation
With this new feature, users will be able to get a translation of the words inside images photographed, even when they are not connected to the internet.
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The Word Lens feature on Google Translate will detect words in an image and match them, powered by Machine Learning that use neural networks to help identify the letters on a picture. (Google/File)
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ith this new update in the Word Lens feature inside the Google Translate app, users will be able to get an English translation of Korean words inside photographed images, even when they are not connected to the internet.
To utilize the feature, users can open the Google Translate application in their phone and take a photograph of the words they wish to translate. The Word Lens feature will detect words in an image and match them with the words stored in its database. It will then provide users with the translation of the words from the image.
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In an official statement, Google said that the feature was created to help travelers, with the example of travelers to South Korea. Word Lens will hopefully be helpful as it can be hard to find signs with English translations in South Korea.
The update is available for both the Android and iOS systems. While Google Translate has been translating 103 languages, the new Word Lens update is now able to translate 31 languages into English and vice versa. The languages include Korean, Japanese, French and Spanish, and the list is growing. (asw)
Editor's note: Paragraph one and four in this story has been corrected.
