Translating Into English...

[Bazbro_imp]

Forgive me if you already know this, but translating documents into English from, for example, Japanese or Chinese, is quite easy and straightforwad using a smartphone.

I shipped in a car from Japan last year. Understandably, I needed to read documents (not least, the car's instruction book) but by using the Google Translation app, setting it to "Camera" and pointing the 'phone at the Japanese writing, up came the translation into.English!

Importing items for the CB1100 from Japan, this translation app is proving extremely useful.

In case anyone wasn't aware of this.

[Gone in 60]

Wow, that's pretty cool! I have a friend who used to have a full time job translating instruction manuals for radio-controlled model airplanes imported from China and Taiwan. Like most things, it can be accomplished with a phone now.

[GoldOxide_imp]

Yeah, it is useful technology that Translate.

Like Google Lens, where you point your camera at something you don't know and Google will identify it pretty reliably.

[Bazbro_imp]

Google 'Lens' is a new one on me, GO...

I've just downloaded it, tried it and it's brilliant!

Thanks.

[GoldOxide_imp]

Google 'Lens' is a new one on me, GO...

I've just downloaded it, tried it and it's brilliant!

Thanks.

lol - great!

I use it a lot to identify foliage in the backyard (I am no gardener, that is for sure).

" ... oh, so that is poison oak, dang, ... too late ... ah crap, ... my eye!"

[Bazbro_imp]

[bioman_imp]

Google 'Lens' is a new one on me, GO...

I've just downloaded it, tried it and it's brilliant!

Thanks.

Interestingly there is also an app called Lens by Microsoft; different but just as useful. That app can transform your picture of e.g. a document or of any piece of text into a Word document. Very handy if you only have a hardcopy.

[GoldOxide_imp]

When the day comes when Google Lens identifies any person, then the end is nigh.

[Bazbro_imp]

Google 'Lens' is a new one on me, GO...

I've just downloaded it, tried it and it's brilliant!

Thanks.

Interestingly there is also an app called Lens by Microsoft; different but just as useful. That app can transform your picture of e.g. a document or of any piece of text into a Word document. Very handy if you only have a hardcopy.

Interestingly there is also an app called Lens by Microsoft; different but just as useful. That app can transform your picture of e.g. a document or of any piece of text into a Word document. Very handy if you only have a hardcopy.
Wow! Another great app. Thanks!

GO - "When the day comes when Google Lens identifies any person, then the end is nigh."
Too true, GO! And I don't think that day is too far off... The authorities can already identify, for example, terrorists in crowds.

[bioman_imp]

When the day comes when Google Lens identifies any person, then the end is nigh.

That day is already here. Not by Google Lens, but by an other piece of software, called Clearview. This software looks for a match of your face among social media. Its use is illegal - but is (I am sure) widely used by most - if not all - governments and lots of shady people.

See this article: [url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/canada-privacy-regulator-says-federal-police-broke-laws-using-facial-recognition-2021-06-10/]Canada privacy regulator says federal police broke laws using facial recognition.