The advent of Google has shown us many benefits, making lives much easier. At the touch of our fingertips lies the vast world, the information to which we would have no access otherwise for even a lifetime. With just one click and one Google search, every piece of knowledge under the sun unfolds before you. The features and tools that Google has to offer have been expanding tremendously. At every step, bestowing us with some new tech that brings another thread of comfort in life.
Google Lens is an AI-powered technology that has swooped in to save time and effort. Announced in 2017, Lens created considerable buzz and was a whole part of Google Pixel phones. However, most Android phones started to possess this technology over the years. Through the help of your camera and deep learning machine it can help you detect any object in front of the camera lens. And not just that but by understanding it, the lens can also offer translations, scanning, shopping, and other options. People often just tap past it and slide it away, not realizing the capability it has developed over the years, and it’s also somehow not hyped up much by Google itself. Technology links the physical and digital worlds by identifying text or objects. However, the mundane productive powers have a substantial day-to-day effect on people’s lives.
Copy text from the real world and even send it to your computer
It allows you to identify text from any physical document, be it a book, whiteboard, or overly inked tattoo. This identified text can be copied on the phone’s clipboard. You can further forward this text to your computer by following a small “copy to computer” step after copying the text.
Interaction with text from an image
Once in a while, we may be struck with an email with fancy letters ebbed onto the images you can’t decipher or copy. Google lens comes as a savior in such situations. Through this tool, you can copy text from any image, be it actual photos or just screenshots.
Search for similar visuals
We often want to figure out or identify the object we see in an image. Google lens can search the text from an image, but it can also provide results of similar images that match the object in your photo or screenshot.
Create calendar events
Marking out important dates on the physical calendar is helpful, but we rarely peek at our calendars. Through Google lens, you can schedule anything with a date involved. Pan your camera on the paper, which has the routine, and Google will provide you with the “create calendar event” option, which would set the dates directly into your calendar app.
Save someone’s contact information
Inserting that heavily digitized number into your phone through paper or a card can be hectic. But Lens can make it easier for you. By tilting your camera towards the number, the Lens will identify the nature of the information and will direct you to add a contact.
