At the Mobile World Congress, Eric Schmidt demonstrated a prototype version of Google Goggles that can instantly translate text captured in photos. Using Google’s machine translation and image recognition technologies the prototype will allow any Android user to translate text from any captured photograph.
The video above demonstrates how the prototype works by translating a photograph of a dinner menu from German-to-English.
“You may wonder what’s happening in the background. On the simplest level, this prototype connects the phone’s camera to an optical character recognition (OCR) engine, recognizes the image as text and then translates that text into English with Google Translate.”
The technology can currently only translate German-to-English but Google hopes to eventually have Google Goggles translate all of the 52 languages currently supported by Google Translate.
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