Google offers many apps and services for smartphones, clearly optimized especially for Android devices. Among these we find Google Lens, the service that has been allowing intelligent image recognition for years now.
Google Lens has seen several evolutions over time, and now it has integrated perfectly in user experience with Android. The years of updates have helped give a very specific identity to Lens, and in the last few hours Google has introduced it another novelty that it brings greater clarity to the use of the service.
Google has indeed optimized the presentation of filters available on Lens. Specifically, Google has not introduced new filters compared to those already present, but rather he reduced them keeping the main ones.
Previously in fact, Lens predicted well 6 categories of filters to start the search using image recognition: Translate, Text, Near, Assignments, Shopping And Meals. With the new update however we find some exactly half: Translate, Near, Assignments.
The first filter among those mentioned is used to carry out a automatic translation of the text framed by the camera.
Text recognition is supported by Lens, while translation is clearly entrusted to Google Translate. The second is used to quickly launch a generic web search to obtain results related to what was framed and recognized by Lens. The third and last one will be useful to those who need to solve a problem teaching problemframing the book or sheet on which it is expressed.
With this news it certainly will be easier understand which filter to use to start Lens in an optimized way. Actually Not they were removed features: for example the function to scan text and digitize it remains present, except that it will be necessary to manually select the text recognized by Lens and then digitize it. While the shopping related results will be displayed by starting the general search.
Behind Google’s choice there is probably also a statistical aspectperhaps Google identified that the removed filters weren’t being used as widely within Lens.
The interface update we just saw is currently during automatic distribution for Lens on Android and iOS devices.
