
The service is similar to Google Goggles, a previous app that functioned similarly but with less capability. Lens is also integrated with the Google Photos and Google Assistant apps. For example, when pointing the device's camera at a Wi-Fi label containing the network name and password, it will automatically connect to the scanned Wi-Fi network. When directing the phone's camera at an object, Google Lens will attempt to identify the object by reading barcodes, QR codes, labels and text, and show relevant search results, web pages, and information. First announced during Google I/O 2017, it was first provided as a standalone app, later being integrated into Android's standard camera app. Google Lens is an image recognition technology developed by Google, designed to bring up relevant information related to objects it identifies using visual analysis based on a neural network. Shopping results are available in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UAE, United Kingdom, and the United States. Lens also can searching images by searching, text, or translate. Lens can translate text into most Google Translate languages. Image recognition tool developed by GoogleĪndroid, iOS (Google Mobile), Microsoft Windows, macOS ( Google Chrome, only for searching images), web
