Google has updated its mobile app on Android platform. Now with the help of onlinetranslator can recognize and translate text from a picture or a snapshot. This option is designed to make life much easier and save time, many people find themselves in a foreign country without knowing the language. However, students taking foreign languages, it would also be a good help.
In order to use the new function of Google Translate, the user must take a picture of text using the camera on your mobile device. The photo is taken directly through the app. After that finger in the picture need to highlight a portion of text for translation and specify the language in which the inscription is made, as automatic recognition of the original language in the program settings. The application sends data to the server, where the user instantly comes the answer.
According to the developers, this feature can be very useful for travelers. While in a foreign country, a person can take a picture of a pointer, a road sign or a menu in a restaurant and instantly get the translation information.
At the moment, the possibility of speech recognition and text translation available for languages such as English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Dutch and Czech. According to Google developers, subsequently they plan to "train" the app to other languages.
At the moment, the translation of the text pictures with the Google Translate is available to owners of mobile phones on the platform Android 2.3 Gingerbread and above. A similar function was provided in the developed in 2009, Google Goggles, also worked on the Android platform.