Now Google Translate for Android translates from photos

Overseas travel is becoming easier and simpler. The Google Translate application for the Android platform has been significantly updated, and a new feature is the translation from a photo.

Now the application can recognize the text and translate into your native Russian, English, German, French, Czech, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish or Turkish language signs or even dishes on the menu, so in an overseas cafe you will no longer have to get nervous after ordering prepare the stomach for something incomprehensible.

The principle of the program is simple: the user takes a snapshot with the desired fragment and highlights the area needed for translation. Next comes text recognition and translation on Google servers. The application requires an active Internet connection.
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By entering the necessary text manually, you can get a translation into 64 languages ​​of the world, but OCR (hello, Google Glass) works only for the languages ​​listed above.

Applications with similar functionality already exist, for example, Word Lens , which costs $ 5 and supports fewer languages. The updated Google Translate application is available on Google Play for Android version higher than 2.1, but the photo translation function works only for Android versions higher than 2.3, for iOS the same has not yet been released.
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