What is Google Lens?

Google Lens is one of the most exciting Android features for years. Google Lens, first introduced in 2017. Google Lens has come to the majority of Android devices, if you don’t have it, then the app is available to download on Google Play.

What is Google Lens?

The Google Lens technology relies upon your smartphone’s camera to “see” what’s around you and give you contextual information about your surroundings .Google Lens’ functions are baked in to other apps, including Google Photos and Google Assistant.

Using the camera on your handset, Google Lens can scan a product, animal, text or something else in your environment and tell you what that object is. The service relies on information sourced from Google and other places to give you accurate information about the subject.

Google Lens will recognise restaurants, Hubs, Cafes and bars, too, presenting you with a pop-up window showing reviews, address details and opening times. It is the ability to recognise everyday objects that is impressive.

What can Google Lens Do?

Google Lens offers the following features

• Collect contact info: Point your Google Lens-equipped camera at a business card, and Google Lens can capture both the phone number and address. It will then add that info to a contact on your phone. That feature also works with email addresses and URLs.
• Translate: You can point your phone at text and, with Google translate plugging in, live translate text in front of your very eyes. This can also work offline.
• Look up books, music, movies and more: If you scan a book cover, Google Lens will identify the title and give you reviews sourced from the web. Google Lens is equally adept at pulling up information about music albums, movies and video games just by spotting their covers.
• Use your phone as a scanner: Google Lens does more than just collect phone numbers and email addresses. It also scans bar codes and QR codes on products.
• Recognize images: Google says it’s building out a library of common plants and animals that Google Lens will be able to identify when you point your camera at one of them.
• Google Homework questions: That is right, you can just scan the question and see what Google comes up with.
• Shopping: If you see a dress you like while shopping . Google Lens can identify that piece and similar articles of clothing. This works for just about any item you can think of, accessing shopping or reviews.

How do  I know if my device has Google Lens?

Pull out your phone and open your Google Photos app. In there, open a photo and, if you have gotten the update, you’ll see a Google Lens icon on the bottom of your images — it’s square with a circle inside.

Google Lens App

Before you learn how to access Google Lens, you will first need to download and install the application. For Android users , simply head over the Google Play Store, then download and install the app. Afterward you can now access all the app’s features mentioned above. 

Conclusion

Google Lens have incredible features. Google Lens is a visual search engine. The image recognition technology narrows these results down to provide relevant information.