Google has been showing us for years that its capabilities based on artificial intelligence are practically unrivaled. And that is something that is demonstrated when it comes to recognizing objects and images on smartphones, since it offers us all its power in the palm of the hand.
The Google Lens function is the one that integrates all this on the mobile and with which we can get hundreds of advantages that you may not have known about. We show you how you can use it and everything you can do to take advantage of this tool that can mark a before and after in the use of technology.
How to use
The giant Google does not offer us a single way to get to use Google Lens in the terminals with its operating system, although in a certain way in all cases we will obtain the same results that we will see later. The first thing we must know is how to activate it and surely with these methods, you will find your favorite according to the time and place where you are.
From the camera
We just have to open the camera app of our smartphone so that the artificial intelligence begins to work after touching the icon. In some cases it is at the top and other times within the extra tools.
With quick access
Once we use Google Lens for the first time, it offers us the possibility of adding an icon to the home panel to always have it just one touch away. But if we don’t activate it at the time, we can always install the app, which basically creates that access.
In the gallery
Some layers of personality also integrate it into the gallery, while Google Photos gives it much more importance. We can be looking at our photos and touching the small icon at the bottom to start the recognition artificial intelligence.
Search bar
Both in the Google widget and in the app, we have a small icon in the shape of a camera or Lens to start it up without having to complicate things.
Also on iPhones
In the case that we have an iPhone, we do not have limited access, but our possibilities will be more affected. We will have to resort yes or yes to Google’s own apps. We can also opt for Google Lens directly from Google Photos. Then the functions and performance will be the same on both iOS and Android.
What can we do
Once we know how it works, we only need to know everything that this tool offers us that, beyond recognizing objects and translating texts, does more and more things. A series of advantages that we can use as we have already explained, either from the mobile camera directly or with the help of a photograph that we have in the gallery.
Image identification
This function that can lead us to think about its utilities without a clear answer, has many. Within the identification, various surprises appear depending on what we are going to recognize with the mobile as we explain.
- Food: useful for those times when we see a dish whose name we do not know, but we would like to know the recipe.
- Breeds: animals are also a possibility, identifying them and even breeds when referring to dogs and cats.
- Read QR codes: they have arrived to stay and with Google Lens, we can also reach the web that it offers us.
- Similar images: as if it were the reverse search of images in Google, this method facilitates the process to find something similar on the net.
Translate or copy text
When we go on a trip or come across a language that we do not speak, we can also use Google to help translate it. This process and that of copying texts is just as fast and practical, having only to choose between the independent menu that each one of them has.
When copying the text, we only have to take the photo and mark it with a finger, and then include it, send it to other devices with our Google account. In the case of translation, it is instantaneous and offers us among all the languages that we can imagine.
Places
If you envy a postcard on social networks, you can also travel to that place and improve the photo with the recognition of Google. You just have to take a screenshot and using the menu itself, and even from the general menu we will be able to finish knowing which place it is on the entire planet earth.
Homework
For students there is also help with AI, as this function will allow us to copy mathematical accounts in digital and obtain the result.
Shopping
There is a tab also focused directly on buying all kinds of products, clothing, food and practically anything that can be sold online. In this way we can compare prices just by taking a photograph.
If it does not work…
To solve the problems that it can give us when using any of the Google Lens tools, we only have to look at two elements. The first of them is that we have the WiFi network or mobile data connected, since it needs it to work.
The next thing is to have the permits granted. We have to go into Settings> Applications and find Google or Google Lens to access permissions and allow access to the camera and files.
The alternatives
Not everything is in the hands of Google, but there are several options that also allow you to search the network with images . However, what not all of them do is recognize texts and translate them, something in which Google is ahead.
One of the most important inspiration image portals that exist also offers us the function to locate a similar place, a similar food or many other objects. In this case, it also tries to find the original source of the image while Google does not give importance to this. Which we can use both on Android and iOS without differences between them.
Image Search
An app that for that matter is even better than the Google image search engine. In this case it is simple and intuitive, all you have to do is open it to load the desired image and find similar ones. We can also download all the images that are shown to us in case we need them with just one button.
