Introducing Word Lens

Word Lens -- http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-lens/id383463868
NEW! French/English now available!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSOlYdlqyTQ

Download now on the App Store, and get language packs when you need them using in-app purchase:
- French to English (NEW!)
- English to French (NEW!)
- Spanish to English
- English to Spanish

Try the demo modes first to get a sense of the technology in action -- reverse or erase Spanish, English, and French words!

Check us out at: http://wordlens.com/
Now available for iPhone 4S/4/3gs, iPod Touch 4, and iPad 2.

Word Lens instantly translates printed words from one language to another using the video camera on your iPhone. No network delay, no roaming fees, and no reception problems.

Word Lens is a dictionary -- evolved. It looks up words for you, and shows them in context. You can use Word Lens on your vacations to translate restaurant menus, street signs, and other things that have clearly printed words.

Word Lens has its limits. Sometimes the translation will have mistakes, and may be hard to understand, but it usually gets the point across. If a translation fails, there is a way to manually look up words by typing them in. Word Lens does not read very stylized fonts, handwriting, or cursive. Try it, and tell us what you think!

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Science & Technology

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[QuestVisual]

nope, Word Lens requires no internet connection to use.

[TheCartographer89]

Hey cause it seems like you guys are crazy smart, could you make an app that, maybe uses a similar technology, to be able to identify plants, animals, and fungi? You could make it into a database where the users of the app put in the information, much like Wikipedia, so its ever evolving. I'd really like to be able, in my wood travels, to take my non existing iphone, and scan an organism with it and know all about it. I feel that that would be awesome.

[Deadlywaterboy]

Does this work?

[RemixPicture]

So when does it come to android?

[scbras]

Nice if this would ever come out, People never have to learn a thing. There cellphones are doing all the work :) But so addictive

[TobiasBoon1980]

He has a valid point. I think that they are just putting pressure on themselves to develop it by saying it exists. I know people who do that all the time. Arnold Schwarzenegger used to go to the gym and cut off shorts to motivate himself to get his calfs pumped because he was embarrassed.

[6johansenad]

Is there a version of this for Android?

[cowmaster5000]

instantly my ass

[gregslife7]

Like the concept but in reality is horribly laggy and unreliable. I tried using the backwards words demo and it flickered words over the image such that only about 30% of the words were translated at any given time. Translations often changed as they flickered. I used an iPod Touch 4G, which is theoretically supposed to be the fastest iPod Touch (though not as fast as the iPhone 4S or iPad 2/3)

[TheSpaz322]

Cool

[willdobbins]

Did you not even look at the video info? First line: link to app store page for video. As for your conspiracy theory bit about the video not lining up between teh cell phone and the live view, the cellphone is having to 1) take the image 2) scan it for text. 3) parse that text and see if it fits in the current language to translate settings 4) translate it 5) clear the old text from teh image and then 6) replace it with translated text. A little bit of screen lag is to be expected.