Word Lens Mobile App – Real Time Language Translation

In our last post we touched on OCR technology (Optical Character Recognition) it appears this technology is quickly becoming the rage. Check out this mobile app for instance – Word Lens



Word Lens performs language translation into real-time. The user simply points the camera towards the text and the app does an OCR transform in real time. From the demo the technology seems highly impressive and a must have app when travelling to foreign countries (it performs translations both ways so you can translate from English too). Interestingly you don’t even a network/internet connection to use it. Seems like it’ll only be a matter of time before innovative use cases of this app go viral.