The idea of ​​an Android application: tourist translator

  'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
 All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe. 

  On the chest of a tiny astronaut there was a shiny metal box, like a spacesuit, which he continually tapped on, desperately calling out to the public:
    - But why do not you want to understand?  I am another civilization!  it
    - machine translator!  You tell me, I tell you, we are friendship, peace ... 

Sometimes you walk around the city abroad and see: an interesting sign (inscription, sign, pointer). And what is written is not clear, you do not know the language. You can pass by, you can get the phone, start the browser, type words into the translator and get an answer. But for a long time and not the fact that it will work out - I have no clue how I would have driven an inscription in Arabic or Chinese into a translator :-). But there is a way out: the same phone, launch “Tourist Translator”, photograph the inscription / sign, etc., the program recognizes the inscription and issues a translation. Simple and fast.
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I would like to have such an application on my mobile phone. The idea of ​​such an application I sent to the htc quietly brilliant contest ( http://translate.google.com/#en|ru|htc%20quietly%20brilliant ).

If you like the idea, vote for the application: htcpromo.ru/work.php?work_id=272 . The fact that I like HTC Tatto I'm sure :-)