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Which camera translator?

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ttony

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Hello,
I'm looking for apps that would ocr text from the camera of my mobile device and translate it to English. Need to use it while travelling abroad. Which ones would you recommend? Thx!
 
You might wait until 'Word Lense' is available for Android or you could try 'Photo Translator' or 'CamDictionary' from Market/Play Store.

I'll wait for Word Lense :)

Harry
 
Thank you Harry :)
"Word Lens" would be great, but I'm not sure if it becomes available also on Android. Any news on that?

I used CamTranslator for a while. Problem with this application is that it translates word by word. I would appreciate something capable of translating whole blocks of text at once. Anyone ever heard about something like this for Android?
 
With Google's online translation tool, which does a reasonable job at translating blocks of text, I'd be surprised if there isn't an app that links to it. Going from a photo to text is probably the tricky part depending on how large the letters are and how well your camera will focus on them (as well as contrast issues)

The demo of Word Lens I just saw on YouTube looked cool, but it only had rather large writing in short phrases. OK for notices but if you're reading information boards at a museum or whatever then it would be useless or at least impractical.

I must say though, technology is a wonderful thing these days :)
 
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