From now on, the Google goggles application, existing in versions for Android and iOS, can work with images containing Cyrillic text - an entry appeared yesterday in the official blog of this product. It also reports on the ability to save search history and the ability to copy recognized text to the smartphone's buffer for the purpose of pasting into other applications.
The application itself Goggles designed visual search and recognition of images obtained using the camera of a mobile device. Technically, his work is as follows: the captured image (in the latest version, simply point the camera at the object of interest) and the device location information is transmitted to Google servers, where the image is recognized and the result is used to perform the search. ')
More information about the service on the video under the cut.