How to Translate Anything Using Your Smartphone Camera

The world is more more diverse than we think. We travel very often, we love travelling and visiting new places during holidays. Natural or Man-made beauty of those places call us and we could not stop us going there. Language is a thing which changes very frequently with changing people and area. We always face problems just because we don’t know how to speak and understand a language. It is bitter fact that if we don’t know any regional language we loose our social connections.

We always needed some tools which can do the translation for us and make it easy for us. Today I am going to tell about a tool which can do the job for you. Obviously, its not the heavy dictionary which you carry around and keep finding words. Hope if our best friend, smartphone can do this for us. Yes, you heard it right. Our smartphones can do this for you.

This Google translate app allows you to translate just by clicking an image with your smartphone’s camera. Download Google Translate app in your Phone and select your preferred language.

Google Translate App Features Translate between 103 languages by typing

• Tap to Translate: Copy text in any app and your translation pops up
• Offline: Translate 52 languages when you have no Internet
• Instant camera translation: Use your camera to translate text instantly in 29 languages
• Camera Mode: Take pictures of text for higher-quality translations in 37 languages
• Conversation Mode: Two-way instant speech translation in 32 languages
• Handwriting: Draw characters instead of using the keyboard in 93 languages
• Phrasebook: Star and save translations for future reference in any language
• Translations between the following languages are supported:

Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu

Steps how to Anything Using Your Smartphone Camera

1. Download and install the app using the links provided in end.

2. Find the app in App tray or on home-screen and launch the App.

3. You will find 3 icons nearly in mid of the screen- camera, mic and scribble. 

4. Choose the input methods by clicking on icon or you can simply type on keyboard. Download offline packages for quick access. 

5. Scan the text using camera or mic of smartphone.

6. Translate will do rest for you on its own. Enjoy the converted text in your language.

You will see a screen like the one above when you tap the camera and it will show you what your camera sees. Point it at some words and watch them change right in front of you. Further, tap the red camera button to snap a photo, if you want to save a specific image. That’s it.

Also, you do not need an internet connection for the app to function. Since, Google stores translation files locally on your phone, there is no need for you to sign up for a local data plan and download them when you travel abroad.

Where and how to get the app

Google Translate is a free app available for download on iPhone, Android, and Google Glass. You can click those links to view the download page, or you can just search the app store on your iPhone or Android to get it straight from your device.