Google Lens app and old German catalog...

tcollects

I'm impressed by the translate feature on Google Lens so I wanted to share. You can just hover your phone over any language and it instantly translates it. Every catalog and book is readable now. It's amazing. What do you gents think?

Here's a pic of a German catalog description...

and here's what it looks like on Google Lens...

pruebas

Works great with Japanese too!

Sapyx

I've noticed Google's translator gets confused if you ask it to translate the text on the images of the coins themselves - it can't recognize the raised lettering as text.

For example, with this coin, if you zoom in on the text ribbon and ask it to try to translate it from Russian, it can't. And it doesn't seem to matter whether you're looking at a picture of a coin in a book, a picture on a screen, or an actual in-hand coin.

tcollects

@Sapyx said:
I've noticed Google's translator gets confused if you ask it to translate the text on the images of the coins themselves - it can't recognize the raised lettering as text.

For example, with this coin, if you zoom in on the text ribbon and ask it to try to translate it from Russian, it can't. And it doesn't seem to matter whether you're looking at a picture of a coin in a book, a picture on a screen, or an actual in-hand coin.

it doesn't get abbreviations, but if you orient the camera so the words are horizontal with the text, it sometimes works - I was playing around with India states rupees yesterday and it translated some of the text, I'm not sure if it was correct. It couldn't figure out old Spanish caliphate legends at all though