Word Lens is an app that lets you translate text by scanning it with your phone. But what’s really cool about Word Lens is the way it translates text. You can point your phone’s camera at a traffic ...

There was a time when a jaunt through a foreign country meant stashing a translation guide on your pocket so that you could whip it out at a moment's notice to read a sign or understand a spoken word.

Word Lens may be one of the coolest mobile apps I’ve ever seen — in theory. Unfortunately it doesn’t work very well right now. But here’s the idea: you point your iPhone camera at a sign or other ...

Each week, Digital Spy rounds up the biggest mobile apps for iOS and Android devices. This week's highlights include test translation service Word Lens and the arrival of the Titanfall companion app.

(Reuters) - Despite the viral nature of YouTube, entrepreneur Otavio Good was still shocked when a video of his mobile translation app, Word Lens, became a social media sensation. "It was overwhelming ...

Google has acquired Quest Visual, the company behind the Word Lens mobile translation application. The app translates printed words from one language to another using a smartphone's camera, without ...

Given you're going to a country where a specific set of languages are going to be used you could keep the app local by importing the language from/to and the transformation rules ahead of time. Maybe ...

Google Translate just got Word Lens, basically. The new feature in the latest update of the Google Translate app lets you take a picture in-app, and highlight text you want translated from one ...