Word Lens: a real-time translator using the iPhone camera

Yesterday a quite peculiar translator arrived at the App Store that makes use of augmented reality and the iPhone camera to translate any text from English to Spanish (and vice versa) instantly. As you can see in the image, the application superimposes the translation on the original text obtaining a rather surprising result.

Although the application is free, we will have to make an outlay of 3,99 euros to take advantage of all the functionalities that Word Lens offers us.

Finally, note that this translator is only compatible with the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4.

You can download Word Lens from the App Store by clicking on the following image:


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  1.   Kalil said

    I can not comment on the article because I have an advertising banner in the middle that if I pass the mouse over it, it takes me even more space ..
    I understand that you have to put advertising, but not if you do not control it and let it be put anywhere .. wrong ...

  2.   Nacho said

    I do not know why the web has become out of square giving rise to this annoying error for everyone ... I have already spoken with the administrators to solve it as soon as possible. There are users who use the firefox ADblock extension and do not have this problem. All the best

  3.   Handle said

    According to iTunes it is compatible with »iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPod touch (4th generation). Requires iOS 4.0 or later. » … You have incomplete information

  4.   Nacho said

    ASa, it is not that it is incomplete but that we are on a website for the iPhone and therefore I only mention the compatibility with the Apple phone. All the best

  5.   Actualidad iPhone said

    @kalil: It is already fixed. It was a banner that was wrong and that is why it was placed on top of the news. thanks for the warning

  6.   Alee said

    Tested in free version and does not translate some, I prefer the normal translator.
    @nacho, and because it is compatible with ipod ipad WON'T YOU PUT IT ON? just because it is ACTUALIDADIPHONE and are your tickets? mmmmmm!

  7.   Nacho said

    Alee, I simply did not comment on it for the reason I mentioned above but if you prefer, in future news of apps I will put the full compatibility list. All the best

  8.   nabuson said

    Ruben, let's see if we teach ourselves to read, the post makes it very clear that you have to pay 3,99 to take advantage of all the functionalities that it offers us

  9.   gasp said

    The reality will increase it, but the translations are terrible

  10.   Alex said

    The application is so BAD that even in the sample capture it does not translate everything, and what it does translate does not translate well. A whole post for this ...

  11.   Mario said

    Do you just come to screw this blog? Why don't you go applesfera to touch the eggs too? You are very tired, the app will work badly but it is something different and new to all the trash that is in the app store and for that alone it must be highlighted. The idea is great and now you just have to improve, nothing more. How much troll is really loose. You don't have a social life that you have to come to a blog to get noticed?

  12.   texas said

    The truth is that the application is a very good idea, regardless of whether it works better or worse, it is definitely a first step that is supposed to improve, but the idea is good.

    I know that for this comment I'm going to receive a lot of negative votes, but I can't hold back.

    I really think that the anti-Apple all meet here, because it is incredible the amount of absurd and tasteless comments that are seen in the different articles that are published on this website, for me one of the best on the iphone, The ungrateful people around the world are amazing, surely the web team strives to bring new things and make them available to all of us so that we learn many things about which we would not find out, well far from being grateful , There are people who continually attack the web in a systematic way, as if they were the authors of the applications, a little please…. read and if you are not interested you pass, if an application you do not like. You say it with good manners and above all respect the people who are selflessly informing you.

    For the record, I have no relationship whatsoever with the team of this website, if with that of others and I know very well the hours that are lost searching the network to bring new things and it seems to me a total lack of education to undertake them against whoever he spends hours looking for things for all of us, the least is at least to be grateful, that at least, but as I said, there is much ungrateful for not using another stronger adjective.

  13.   Rev. said

    texas

    You can say higher, but not clearer. Amen.

  14.   Alex said

    Texuas, I have voted you positively and believe me, I am a fan of apple and many of its products. Specifically, this application has nothing to do with apple, I feel free to criticize it because it seems very shabby to me, it may be that on the way to being something good but at the moment very shabby and much more to cost 4 euros, I do not think it deserves an entry and that's why I say it. I love the blog and I follow it assiduously, but as a person I think I have the right to express my opinion.

  15.   Nacho said

    texuas, thank you for your words. It is a pleasure to read from time to time some token of appreciation and appreciation for our work that, as you have said, takes us a few hours. Greetings 😉

  16.   texas said

    I agree that the application itself is not a big deal and that it has a lot of filming ahead of it, I also agree that 4 euros is a very excessive price for what it does and how it does it, until here I fully agree.
    What I do not agree with is that the application does not deserve an entry, and I am not for several reasons, one because it is an application because it is quite out of the usual that we find every day and I am not. Because I assure you that I have in favorites at least 10 websites and blog that I visit every day, being these in which things are usually published about mobile phones, about Apple, about the iphone, the iPad and various devices and of the 10 websites / Blog, in at least 6 of them an entry of this application is published, therefore, many others understand that it is "worthy" of mention.

    I repeat that the application lacks a lot of filming, but let's think a bit and if we do we would have to ask ourselves a question and it is: How many text translators do a good translation? The answer is that none of them really do it well, if it is difficult translate a text, I don't want to think how difficult it will be to translate a text within an image.

    On the other hand, this is one of the blogs that I visit daily and on some occasions I read the comments and I assure you that in no other website / blog do I read so many derogatory, out-of-the-box and critical comments as in this blog and that in a way systematic, I'm not just talking about this entry, no no, it's something common here and man…. I think that with saying that the application is bad, that it is not up to par, that it does not deserve to pay 4 euros or similar things, it is great, what no longer seems to me even normal is that the web team is blamed just as if they were the ones who did the development of this or another application, and be careful, I do not say it because of some of the comments that I have read in this article or entry, no no, this is very very generic in most of the entries, To put any one, I could quote in which they talked about the white iphone 4, you see every exit from the mother of the nose.

  17.   xelan said

    I'm up to the huevs ... of this bunch of firecrackers that the only thing they know how to do is criticize the work of others.
    If you think you're so smart, why don't you create a website and make it perfect?
    A, and especially before criticizing, read the post well, because I see that you don't even know how to read.

  18.   Joe said

    Thanks for the warning, it's not free, it's just the hook !!! and apparently the translation is not good!