What is Google Lens, what can we do and how to use it

  • Google Lens allows you to search for information using your phone's camera.
  • Facilitates the automatic translation of texts in other languages.
  • Allows you to select and copy text from any visual source.
  • Read barcodes and QR codes without the need for additional applications.

Since we have telephones with Internet, we have a source of information in our pocket. The ability to search for information on Google at one point has changed the lives of many people, but… What if everything could be even faster? We tell you how Google Lens works. The Google application that allows you to search for information from your camera.

Not everyone knows this application, but also, many of the people who know it, do not know all the potential and possibilities it offers. So here we are to tell you everything you can do with Google Lens.

Google Lens. Information through your lens

The idea that Google Lens offers us is very simple, interpret what your camera is seeing and search for information about it on Google. The options and possibilities of the app, on the other hand, are no longer so "simple".

You can download the app from the Play Store, but many manufacturers include it in their camera app natively.

Google Lens

But… What does Google Lens allow us to do? Well, we will tell you.

Search information on Google

The first, the most logical and the one most used by many users is search information on Google through the image. It does reverse image search automatically. A painting, a sculpture, a product and a long etcetera.

You simply point your camera on what you want to find information or know what it is. You hit the search button and a Google search will appear without leaving the application.

This option can be found only by opening the application.

Google Lens

Automatic translation

If you are viewing a text in another language and you want to translate it, you do not have to type everything in Google Translate. You just have to focus on it with your camera and click on translate, easy right?

You can find this option in the option to the left of everything, which has the logo of the video translator.

Google Lens translator

Select text

If you want to copy a text that you are seeing on a poster, book, document or similar, you do not need to copy it into a note processor. You just need to scan the text and you can copy it, then you can make modifications, search Google, etc.

We can find this option by placing ourselves to the left of the search, with a document symbol.

Google Lens text

Read barcodes and QR

No, you don't need to download a QR code reader for your Android mobile. With Google Lens you can read barcodes or QR codes easily and simply.

barcode and QR code

google lens qr reader

Other options

We also have other options, and we will surely discover more.

Another interesting option is to be able to see the dishes on a menu and search for it in Google automatically. Something very useful for allergic to certain ingredients or to know if you like or not what it takes.

menu

Another option that seems to be incorporating is to see outfits that would look good with the jacket you are wearing or with those pants, ideas to dress, etc. This is a new option that Google is incorporating and that it may take us a while to see it on our phones, but without problems.

Google Lens Clothing

What do you think of Google Lens? Will you start using it from now on?

Google Lens
Google Lens
Developer: Google LLC
Price: Free