{"id":27609,"date":"2012-08-09T22:13:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=27609"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:46:19","slug":"how-to-use-google-translates-camera-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-use-google-translates-camera-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use Google Translate\u2019s camera translation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/google-translate.en.softonic.com\/android\">Google Translate<\/a>&#8216;s Android update introduced using your phone&#8217;s camera to take snapshots of text and translate it into another language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need a data connection to use the app, because there&#8217;s no offline mode. Since this is a new feature, there are some quirks that appeared when I tried to use it. The first is the camera icon is not defaulted but rather locked to specific supported languages. Google Translate&#8217;s camera option also <strong>requires Android 2.3 Gingerbread and above<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to use this new Google Translate feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After opening Google Translate, the language selection is listed as &#8220;Detect language.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Google Translate&#8217;s camera translation only supports a small number of languages right now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/08\/Google-Translate-Russian-to-English1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27621\" title=\"Google Translate Russian to English\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Czech<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Dutch<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>English<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>French<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>German<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Italian<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Polish<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Portuguese<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Russian<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Spanish<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Turkish<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Translate will show support for the language by displaying a <strong>camera icon at the bottom right<\/strong> of your screen. Tap on the icon and it will access the camera and let you take a snapshot of an image. It&#8217;s important to take as crisp of a photo as possible, because the app can have difficulties reading the text if it is too blurry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After taking a snapshot, <strong>highlight the text you want to translate with your finger<\/strong>. Be careful when selecting the text because Google Translate can get confused with partially highlighted text. If the text selection is good, Google Translate will process and produce the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s disappointing that a lot of the ideographic languages like Korean, Chinese, and Japanese aren&#8217;t supported yet, because many users might want them. But if this is the first step to including better translation in Google Translate, hopefully support for more languages will be added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last step would be to have offline translation available on Android devices. If Google offered the ability to download specific languages as well, that would be a great option for Android users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Translate&#8217;s camera function is a great addition that will benefit users when more languages are supported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Translate&#8216;s Android update introduced using your phone&#8217;s camera to take snapshots of text and translate it into another language. You need a data connection to use the app, because there&#8217;s no offline mode. Since this is a new feature, there are some quirks that appeared when I tried to use it. The first is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-use-google-translates-camera-translation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to use Google Translate\u2019s camera translation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2030,"featured_media":27617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2518,2441],"tags":[2681],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-27609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-translate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333694,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27609\/revisions\/333694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27609"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=27609"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=27609"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=27609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}