Google Lens

Google Lens is the Google app that uses your phone's camera to identify and find information about the world around you by making online searches and more.

Learn more about your surroundings with the help of Google's AI and the camera

We've known for a long time that Google has the answer to (almost) everything. When we have questions, we turn to the search engine and, as a rule, solve the problem relatively easily if we know what to ask for. Google Lens goes one step further and allows us to use our phone's camera to ask the search engine not only what's on our minds, but also what our eyes see.

This is a tool whose basic idea is very simple: it searches for everything that the camera captures and identifies. So we can find information about texts, plants, animals, objects, restaurants, shops... Everything around us can be identified by Lens in order for the search engine to work and provide relevant information.

Google Lens' Utilities

For a while, this feature was included as an option in Google Photos, but it's now become a standalone app so users can use it while also feeding the database for the company's artificial intelligence experiments. These are the main tools it puts at our disposal:

• Recognizes and interacts with text: With GL you can already focus on text with the camera to perform all sorts of actions, e.g. For example, you can add appointments to the calendar, look up or translate words in the dictionary, and even copy and paste text.
• Information about your surroundings: it recognizes the most important monuments, works of art in museums, their opening hours... and shows the user information and historical data that may be of interest to him - perfect for sightseeing!
• Recognizes Purchases: If you're walking down the street and see the perfect jacket in a shop window, crave hard-to-find chocolates, or want to know how much your neighbor spent on their new car, Lens allows you to point the camera and get the one you want Object or related items to buy directly on the Internet.
• Recognizes Plant Varieties and Animal Breeds: Curiosity should never be seen as a fault. With Google Lens, you can satisfy your intellectual curiosity when you see an unfamiliar plant or dog in the park. Google Lens recognizes the breed of animal and the type of plant.

The search can be done from the device's camera, but also from any image stored in the phone's gallery. In the bottom bar we will find different search options depending on the type of object detected, translation if it is text, the possibility of listening to songs or watching videos if it suspects a relationship... With Google Lens, your surroundings are no longer a secret !

What's new in the latest update?

• Camera movement is analyzed to provide more accurate results.

Requirements and further information:

• Minimum operating system requirements: Android 6.0.