Google has moved from being the go-to engine for
searching content online (it still is actually) into something much more. It is
safe to say Google definitely has all of us in its grasp with each and every
one of us competing and working to own the next thing Google creates or
manufactures and releases. Google lens is one hell of a software program
created by Google! Google lens is an image recognition software that was
developed by the technology department of Google. The recognition software was
made with access to the extremely large database of Google information. This
means that it was designed to access the database and bring up relevant search
results of images your input. It was particularly made for android phones. The
google lens was developed into an app and can be accessed via opening the app.
Brief
Background
Google lens was not made for all smartphones at first.
The app was first released with the Google phone series. The phone that
pioneered it was Google Pixel 2. It was a pre-installed app on the phone. Owing
to the fact that the lens app quickly hooked people, Google immediately rolled
out the software into all other Pixel phones. It was integrated into Google
Assistant afterward. The implication of this was that you can now search for an
image using an image with Google Assistant without necessarily having the app.
The following year saw the release of the software for phones without the
google lens i.e. non-pixel phones including Apple iOS devices. Now new versions
of Android smartphones been integrated into its camera app the google lens
software without necessarily downloading the app. Google lens for Android was also released on Google Play Store
before later rolling out the app on the iOS app store. It is important to note
that the app comes with support for Android version 6.0 (Marshmallow) and other
newer versions. For iOS, it supports all the phones.
Simply put, Google lens uses the camera of your Android
or iOS device to detect an object and bring up relevant and related information
about it thanks to its impressive and efficient AI technology. In addition, its
use of deep machine learning to access the huge database of Google makes it a
must-have app. In fact in a tweet by Google on its release in 2017, it said:
“With Google Lens, your smartphone camera won’t just see what you see, but it
will also understand what you see to help you action”. This pretty much sums it
up.
Your Google lens will recognize images of any
restaurant, bar, club, etc. as long as they are connected to the internet via a
router. It can actually recognize anything and provide you very useful
information. Oh! And it is extremely fast in coming up with search results.
I have taken the time to use the google lens for android while doing this write-up. Thus, I would be
discussing briefly all the features and ability Google Lens has that makes it
such a wonderful app to use:
- Smart text search: This
is a feature in Google Lens that allows you to search for relevant
information on a particular word or sentence without actually typing it.
To do this,
you simply need to open either your Google Assistant app or the Google lens app
itself. Once you open either app, you will then need to take a picture of the
text. As soon as you finish this, you would now have to highlight the text and
look it up online.
- OCR
abilities: when I used the google lens app, this was one of the things
I immediately loved about the app. With google lens, you can simply take a
picture of some texts and then easily highlight the text and copy. This
can really come in handy if you need the soft copy form of a document.
With the lens and an app like Microsoft word, you would quickly create the
document before you know it.
Note:
it can only be done within Google Lens and not in your photos or gallery app.
- Random Search results: From
clothing to footwears to groceries shopping etc. you can use Google Lens
to identify the items. Not just this, with the Google Lens app, you would
also get search results of items similar to the piece you search for. It
would also suggest supermarkets and stores close to you where you can get
them.
In addition,
you can even point your phone’s camera on your house decors so that you can get
suggestions on newer things to buy to upgrade them. One other
thing you get with this app is it gives you reviews from people. With this, you
don’t have to waste your money buying an item or product only to discover it
was bad or not as useful as thought. With the reviews, you would be able to
decide for yourself whether you want to share in the experience of those who
wrote the reviews.
- Search important things: Google
Lens allows you the chance to know what is around you. If you use your
camera on anything near you, it would tell you what things to expect near
the area.
Note:
Newer android phones now come with the Lens software integrated into the Google
Photos app.
The truth is if you are an active Android user who is
always quick to look things up on the internet using google, you should definitely
use the Lens app.
0 Comments