Google Lens

Google Lens application is an AI-powered image recognition technology developed by Google. It lets users use their smartphone camera to detect any object or text in front of its camera lens using visual analysis based on neural network.

It can be used to identify real-world objects with the phone’s camera and find information about plants, animals, landmarks, restaurants, products, and more.

Features of Google Lens

The Google Lens app has numerous features. Some of the most useful features that can make our everyday lives easier are discussed below,

• Scan Texts

All you need to do is point your phone's camera at text, and highlight it within Google Lens, and you can copy it to use on your phone. This feature is really helpful in your everyday life, as it allows you to save a business card to your contacts, add events to your calendar from a poster and copy and paste complicated codes or long paragraphs into your phone to save time.

• Translate

You can point your phone at any text, or any poster or pictures highlighting any lines and with Google Translate, Google Lens will translate the text instantly.

• Detect Plants & Animals

Google Lens application lets you find out about any plants or animals you may not know about. You just need to point your camera at it and find out what it is. Or you can also click a picture and using Google Lens feature inside Google photo.

• Search Text

Highlighting any text in this Lens app, you can also search that text with Google Assistant. This feature helps you to look up the meaning of the word or sentence.

• Scan Codes

It also permits you to quickly scan QR codes and barcodes with your Android device.

• Explore Places Around You

You can learn about restaurants, shopping malls, storefronts, and even landmarks around you. Additionally, you can also see ratings of the restaurants and malls, historical facts, and more.

• Shopping

If you like any dress while shopping, you can use Google Lens to identify and find similar dresses and also see reviews about it.

• Add Events by Scanning Tickets

With Google Lens app, you can keep a track of events you need to attend. No need to enter events manually, you can just scan the ticket and it will automatically suggest adding the event to your calendar directly.

• Book Review and Summary

You can scan any book covers and know what it's about along ratings & reviews of the book. It comes really handy when you browse through books in a book store.

Sometimes you come across a quote or passage that you love instantly but don't know which book it's from. It also has a solution for it. If you scan some paragraphs from inside the book, Google Lens app can detect the book's name.

• Know What to Order

You can find out the best dish of any restaurant based on the reviews from Google Maps.