Seems like a extremely useful tool, just needs to not be Google, any alt recommendations welcome!
ITT - Apple users who don’t know what Lens is and how useful it is 😂
Yeah. For apple users Lens is not the simple andtoid camera app (which yes can translate text on the fly and read QR codes) - Lens is a visual search tool that can answer queries based on pictures.
Like if you take a picture of a tree you can ask what species it is, or a picture of a person you can ask where the clothes are from etc.
Stupid hardware fixing I’ve never seen before - Lens will tell me what it is
Apple is about five years behind, then will announce it as a revelation they came up with, as usual 😂
And charge you for it
If you have the google app, on the landing page there is a camera icon. You can either use lens live that way, or upload a pic and it will tell you what plant/animal/etc it is, sometimes, or iirc it will translate texts. But it does both in real time too. I have an iPhone and use it a lot.
You can use Lens on iPhones just fine. It’s part of the google app.
If you have the google app, on the landing page there is a camera icon. You can either use lens live that way, or upload a pic and it will tell you what plant/animal/etc it is, sometimes, or iirc it will translate texts. But it does both in real time too. I have an iPhone and use it a lot.
My main gripe with Google Lens is that it replaced Google Image Search on their browser. Used to be able to drag/drop an image into Google and it’d do an instant search for all similar/identical images. Now it opens Google Lens and it just gives me a bunch of “related links” instead of a proper image search.
To get the old functionality back, I need to use a “Google image search” add-on in my Firefox browser. It opens the old Google image search page.
I mostly use it to find higher resolution versions of old, grainy images, but Google Lens took that functionality away from me.
Tineye usually produces better results
You don’t need an extension to do that. I can use image search just fine with images.google.com.
Tineye
If it’s only for a reverse image search, I use tineye.com . That being said, it doesn’t have all the functionalities of lens, like it doesn’t have an integrated AI to recognize the content of a pic or anything…
For copying text from a real world document, I also use OCR, which you can find on F-Droid.
What is it? What functionality are you looking for?
Lens is a visual search tool. Take a picture, ask it to search or answer a question based on what’s in the picture. Like take a picture of a tree and ask it what species is it
Oof. Sounds like it needs a huge back end with a ton of pre-processed data.
So, is Google Lens just an ‘reverse image search’? Never used it.
Nah , you can scan docs , you can also translate text in real time witth it !
Depends on what do u , use it for ? I hardly use it except for qr code scans , so any code scanners work for me !