Google Goggles to Translate Text in Photos



At the Mobile World Congress, Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed off a new prototype of Google Goggles — Google’s experimental Android visual search application — that can translate text captured in photos.

…At the Mobile World Congress, Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed off a new prototype of Google Goggles Google’s experimental Android visual search application that can translate text captured in photos.The prototype uses Google’s machine translation technology and image recognition capabilities to create an additional layer of useful context. So should the user take a photo from his Android device, the application can translate the text in that photo though right now it only supports German-to-English translations.Here’s how Google describes the process: You may wonder what’s happening in the background. On the simplest level, this prototype connects the phone’s camera to an optical character recognition (OCR) engine, recognizes the image as text and then translates that text into English with Google Translate. You can’t get your hands on the updated application yet, and Google is being coy about when it will release an update, but you can expect the application to eventually support photo-to-text translation in…

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