Seems like a extremely useful tool, just needs to not be Google, any alt recommendations welcome!
- Mr_Blott ( @Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ) 17•10 months ago
ITT - Apple users who don’t know what Lens is and how useful it is 😂
- BananaTrifleViolin ( @BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social ) 7•10 months ago
Yeah. For apple users Lens is not the simple andtoid camera app (which yes can translate text on the fly and read QR codes) - Lens is a visual search tool that can answer queries based on pictures.
Like if you take a picture of a tree you can ask what species it is, or a picture of a person you can ask where the clothes are from etc.
- Mr_Blott ( @Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ) 3•10 months ago
Stupid hardware fixing I’ve never seen before - Lens will tell me what it is
Apple is about five years behind, then will announce it as a revelation they came up with, as usual 😂
- AttackBunny ( @AttackBunny@beehaw.org ) 2•10 months ago
If you have the google app, on the landing page there is a camera icon. You can either use lens live that way, or upload a pic and it will tell you what plant/animal/etc it is, sometimes, or iirc it will translate texts. But it does both in real time too. I have an iPhone and use it a lot.
- snowe ( @snowe@programming.dev ) 4•10 months ago
You can use Lens on iPhones just fine. It’s part of the google app.
- AttackBunny ( @AttackBunny@beehaw.org ) 2•10 months ago
If you have the google app, on the landing page there is a camera icon. You can either use lens live that way, or upload a pic and it will tell you what plant/animal/etc it is, sometimes, or iirc it will translate texts. But it does both in real time too. I have an iPhone and use it a lot.
- drcouzelis ( @drcouzelis@lemmy.zip ) English2•10 months ago
What is it? What functionality are you looking for?
- BananaTrifleViolin ( @BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social ) 4•10 months ago
Lens is a visual search tool. Take a picture, ask it to search or answer a question based on what’s in the picture. Like take a picture of a tree and ask it what species is it
- drcouzelis ( @drcouzelis@lemmy.zip ) English7•10 months ago
Oof. Sounds like it needs a huge back end with a ton of pre-processed data.
- Echo71Niner ( @Echo71Niner@lemm.ee ) 1•10 months ago
So, is Google Lens just an ‘reverse image search’? Never used it.