{"id":66795,"date":"2014-05-16T20:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T18:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=66795"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:41:16","slug":"google-translate-word-lens-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-translate-word-lens-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Translate to get live translations with Word Lens purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has purchased the live translation app <a title=\"Word Lens for iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlens.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Word Lens<\/a> and will be integrating its technology into <a title=\"Google Translate\" href=\"http:\/\/google-translate.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Translate<\/a>. Word Lens is an app that uses your phone&#8217;s camera to scan and translate words in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>Google Translate has the ability to translate photographed text but the feature is slow. By integrating Word Lens&#8217; technology, Translate will be able to translate written text quickly. This can make international travel less intimidating.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the official statement from Word Lens about the acquisition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With Word Lens, we&#8217;ve seen the beginnings of what&#8217;s possible when we harness the power of mobile devices to &#8216;see the world in your language.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>By joining Google, we can incorporate Quest Visual&#8217;s technology into Google Translate&#8217;s broad language coverage and translation capabilities in the future.<\/p>\n<p>As a thank you to everybody who supported us on our journey, we&#8217;ve made both the app and the language packs free to download for a limited time while we transition to Google.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re looking forward to continuing our work at Google &#8211; stay tuned!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement implies that development for Word Lens will stop. This makes sense if Google is planning on integrating the app&#8217;s technology into its own Translate app.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried Word Lens, you can download the app for free. Language packs are also free for a limited time while the company transitions to Google. The app currently supports Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download Word Lens: <a title=\"Word Lens for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/word-lens.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> | <a title=\"Word Lens for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlens.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Word Lens\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Word Lens<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Via: <a title=\"Android Police\" href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2014\/05\/16\/google-buys-word-lens-maker-quest-visual-app-will-probably-die-but-all-language-packs-are-free-for-a-limited-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android Police<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Follow Lewis on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-10-0-for-ios-out-now\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook 10.0 for iOS out now<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/imessage-causes-problems-when-moving-from-ios-to-android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iMessage causes problems when moving from iOS to Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/gmail-hangouts-status-mood-indicators\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Improved status and mood indicators come to Google Hangouts in Gmail<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has purchased the live translation app Word Lens and will be integrating its technology into Google Translate. Word Lens is an app that uses your phone&#8217;s camera to scan and translate words in real-time. Google Translate has the ability to translate photographed text but the feature is slow. By integrating Word Lens&#8217; technology, Translate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-translate-word-lens-purchase\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Translate to get live translations with Word Lens purchase&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":66800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2681],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-66795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-translate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66795","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\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330739,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66795\/revisions\/330739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66795"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=66795"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=66795"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=66795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}