How to translate images, translate words on photos for Android

You travel to another country and see advertising banners on the road, you want to know what is written on it.Or maybe you have a newly opened Italian restaurant and their Italian language on the banner that you don't understand.Of course you can directly ask them the meaning of those banners or you can use your Android phone to translate it by taking photos.

1. How to translate any text / text on Android device application?

Yes, that is exactly what will be mentioned in this article.All you have to do is take an appropriate image with the word on it and follow the instructions below.

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Microsoft Translator

You probably already know that Microsoft has a language translation application on Android.Microsoft Translator recently updated the word translation feature on images.The application can translate images from photos taken from the camera application or photos taken from the Translator application.

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The image illustrated above is the user interface.It includes voice translation (voice translator) and word translation (text translator).But, what we're interested in is the camera icon translating text from images.The second image on the right is the screen capture of the camera interface in the application.

You can take a photo or click the library icon on the left to select the image and translate the text from there.This is a translation from English to Hindi from a magazine.

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However, the translation is not accurate, is even a terrible translation, but it has perfectly translated all specific lines and words in that magazine page.

This application can translate text text into 21 languages.You do not have many language choices to translate.The app's default translation language is English.

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You can download good languages ​​for offline use.Microsoft Translator just released this update last week.

Google Translate (Google translation)

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Google Translateis undoubtedly a pioneer in bringing translation tools to smartphones.This is one of the must-have applications of a traveler.

Google Translate has added the real-time translation feature in June 2015. However, some people feel that this feature is not very effective because it only works well on images with good brightness and regular fonts.

Taking a photo and Google Translate will try to detect the text from the image.Then it will ask you to mark the text you want to translate.This feature is much better than Microsoft Translator.You can select the text you want to translate.

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All translations will be archived and you can review the translations.In addition, Google Translate will provide suggestions about the language you use often.Microsoft Translator also has this feature.

So with these two applications you can understand what simple pictures say, they are very handy when traveling.If you intend to travel abroad, you should pocket these two applications in your phone.