Thereafter, it will ask you to highlight the text that you’d like to translate. Snap a picture and it will try to detect text from the image. Otherwise, translation from already taken pics or snaps from the inbuilt camera translated perfectly, as shown in the above screenshot. Real-time translation only worked when the target text was bright enough and of some regular font. But, in my recent usage, I didn’t find it be effective. Google Translate added real-time translation to the app back in June 2015. It’s one of the must-have app for a traveler. And, it has evolved and got better and better with every update. Google Translate is undoubtedly the pioneer to bring translations to smartphones. IOS user? Here’s how you can translate web pages and text on iPhone. But, there’s already a big player in this field that had this feature included in its app last year.

Microsoft Translator got this update last week. You can download your most used language for offline use. But you don’t get enough options in the language you’d like to translate from. So it’s legible to use it to translate specific words or a small line of words. But, in my use, specific lines or words were perfectly translated. Here’s a paragraph translated from English to Hindi from my college magazine. You can snap a picture or tap on the gallery icon on the left to select a picture and translate text from it. On the right is the screenshot of camera interface within the app. But, what we are interested in here is that camera icon that translates text from images. There is a voice translator and a custom text translator. So, let’s take a look at this feature of Microsoft Translator. It can be an already snapped photo(from your camera app) or a photo snapped from the Translator app itself. Microsoft translator recently got an update that translates text present in an image. Well, if you didn’t then you might not be even knowing this awesome suite of apps that Microsoft has on Play Store.

So, you must be knowing that Microsoft has a Language Translator app on Android. Translate Image Text on Your Android Smartphone

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