Google’s Goggles Take On OCR Translation
What can you do with Google Goggles?
You can go out at a random place, point the camera around at the nearby bars and restaurants to figure out which place you might be able to get some decent food from. There will be prices, menus and even booking and reservation options depending on the establishment.
You can point the camera at a painting and have the app attempt to figure out the artist, title and even medium of the painting. With luck, you might even get to read on reviews and about the history of the artwork in question.
You can point the device at some commercial products to determine cost, if it’s available to purchase online and of course, what it is.
There are plenty of actual and potential capabilities of augmented reality applications like the Google Goggles. And while most features still need some serious tweaking and updating, the fact that visual scanning technology exists means that we have gone a long way as a civilization.
Google has been busy with translation technology recently, and reports that the Nexus One would be updated with high-end translation capabilities are pretty convincing. After all, the device features excellent speech recognition software, it would not be surprising if it is later adapted for translating basic phrases and words.
Google Goggles will be given OCR capabilities. Optical character recognition software has been seeing plenty of innovations since the invention of the scanner and it would not be surprising if this new application will work great for translating public signs or other useful notices or posters. This technology would never work for intensive tasks such as deciphering news articles or letters, but with smaller volumes of text, it should do great.
To get the rest of the details regarding the new Google Goggles update and what it can do, go to Mobile Choice UK.
