Word Lens Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Word Lens hands-on: Does it really translate text in real-time?

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Dec 17th, 2010)

Word Lens hit the store with a bang, promising real-time translation of signs, menus, and any other text your camera can capture. Does the augmented-reality app work? Somewhat, yes. Is it the future? Definitely. We're just not there yet. I'll let the images in the gallery tell the story. But ...

Word Lens: an augmented reality language translator for iPhone

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 17th, 2010)

Word Lens is one of those apps that grabs your attention the first time you see it in action. Created by Quest Visual, it is an iPhone-based optical character recognition (OCR) application used for language translation. In real-world usage, it will translate a foreign language sign in an instant ...