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New translation technology will blow your mind
Word Lens, a new iPhone app, is capable of translating words inside of images.
Traveling in a foreign country and having trouble reading what the menu or road sign says? Word Lens, an augmented reality translation app, will come to your rescue.
Simply fire up the app and as you point the iPhone camera at the text you want to translate and Word Lens magically translates the words in a blink of an eye. Everything remains the same except for the words inside the image, and the translation is done remotely — no Internet or phone connection is required.
How this app works is that it uses Optical Character Recognition technology to scan for characters through the iPhone camera, translates them in real time, and replaces foreign words with English counterparts (and vice-versa).
It took Quest Visual founders Otavio Good and John DeWeese two-and-a-half years to develop this mind-blowing translating technology.
The app currently supports only Spanish to English translation, or vice versa, for now. But more languages and even an app for the blind are being added on.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we did French next, Italian and since my mom is Brazilian, Portuguese,” Good claimed.
Although Word Lens is free on the App Store, you will find that only turning printed text backwards and erasing them from your screen work. To unleash its full potential, you have to make an in-app purchase of US$4.99 for each language available.
Word Lens, a new iPhone app, is capable of translating words inside of images.
Traveling in a foreign country and having trouble reading what the menu or road sign says? Word Lens, an augmented reality translation app, will come to your rescue.
Simply fire up the app and as you point the iPhone camera at the text you want to translate and Word Lens magically translates the words in a blink of an eye. Everything remains the same except for the words inside the image, and the translation is done remotely — no Internet or phone connection is required.
How this app works is that it uses Optical Character Recognition technology to scan for characters through the iPhone camera, translates them in real time, and replaces foreign words with English counterparts (and vice-versa).
It took Quest Visual founders Otavio Good and John DeWeese two-and-a-half years to develop this mind-blowing translating technology.
The app currently supports only Spanish to English translation, or vice versa, for now. But more languages and even an app for the blind are being added on.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we did French next, Italian and since my mom is Brazilian, Portuguese,” Good claimed.
Although Word Lens is free on the App Store, you will find that only turning printed text backwards and erasing them from your screen work. To unleash its full potential, you have to make an in-app purchase of US$4.99 for each language available.
Maybe what you ordered was Rojak, Encik ???
