Google Lens recently got a nice, new update on the desktop Chrome browser that expands its functionality from just recognizing images across the web to also recognizing and translating text. This new update brings the desktop version more on par with its mobile counterpart, where this functionality … [Read more...] about Google Lens in desktop Chrome adds translate and OCR text tool
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Google Lens gets “Multisearch” for combined image + text search
Google announced a new update to Google Lens yesterday, giving users the ability to add a text search term on top of your image search to get more detailed results. Google hopes this will help with queries where you don't have all the details or don't know the specific name of a thing you are … [Read more...] about Google Lens gets “Multisearch” for combined image + text search
How to identify images in Chrome using Google Lens
Besides web search, Google Lens may be one of the most helpful products Google has ever released. You can use it to scan and translate text in real-time, copy and paste printed or handwritten text, call a phone number on a street sign, or even identify that shoe you saw someone else wear that you … [Read more...] about How to identify images in Chrome using Google Lens
New Google Photos features announced, confirms importing from iCloud and Facebook
Google just announced via a blog post that there are a ton of new - and useful - features coming to Google Photos "over the coming weeks." These features are the same ones we reported on last month and then again last week, which consists of a new layout for better organization, discovery, sharing, … [Read more...] about New Google Photos features announced, confirms importing from iCloud and Facebook
