{"id":124964,"date":"2021-03-22T21:32:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/?p=124964"},"modified":"2021-03-22T21:32:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:32:16","slug":"google-lens-tools-now-proactively-appear-in-google-photos-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/en\/news-el\/technology-en\/google-lens-tools-now-proactively-appear-in-google-photos-for-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Lens tools now proactively appear in Google Photos for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Lens has long been part of Google Photos to help you visually search images. On Android, Google Lens is now a more prominent part of Photos by identifying what pictures would benefit from the analysis and search tool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, Lens is activated by opening a photo and selecting the appropriate icon in the bottom bar. It appears alongside the share, edit, and delete actions.<\/p>\n<p>Google is now making Lens available in the info sheet that appears when swiping up on an image. There is a new \u201cSearch inside this photo\u201d section underneath the date\/time. Cleverly, this card only appears when Google detects that Lens would be useful, i.e. if the image or screenshot includes text. As such, pictures are quickly being analyzed the moment you pull up the sheet. This feature does not initially work to recognize monuments in our brief testing.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a small thumbnail with prompt to \u201cSelect text in image\u201d and \u201cGoogle Lens.\u201d The four options are: Copy text, Search, Listen, and Translate.\u00a0Tapping any will immediately launch Lens into that mode.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\" data-carousel-extra=\"{&quot;blog_id&quot;:4,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/9to5google.com\\\/2021\\\/03\\\/21\\\/google-lens-photos-search\\\/&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\" data-carousel-extra=\"{&quot;blog_id&quot;:4,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/9to5google.com\\\/2021\\\/03\\\/21\\\/google-lens-photos-search\\\/&quot;}\" data-jetpack-block-initialized=\"true\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\" data-carousel-extra=\"{&quot;blog_id&quot;:4,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/9to5google.com\\\/2021\\\/03\\\/21\\\/google-lens-photos-search\\\/&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" data-carousel-extra=\"{&quot;blog_id&quot;:4,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/9to5google.com\\\/2021\\\/03\\\/21\\\/google-lens-photos-search\\\/&quot;}\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/Google-Lens-Photos-search-1.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"Google Lens Photos search\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Google Lens is very useful for optical character recognition (OCR) and a great time saver. However, most people don\u2019t know that it\u2019s available, and today\u2019s addition is a step towards increasing its prominence.<\/p>\n<p>This expanded availability for Google Lens in Photos for Android is widely rolled out (via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2021\/03\/21\/new-google-photos-interface-tweaks-make-it-easier-to-access-lens-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android Police<\/a>) on the latest version (5.33) of the application. It\u2019s not yet appearing in the iOS client, which has not been updated since December and is missing a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2021\/01\/23\/google-photos-android-tablet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new tablet-optimized view<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2021\/03\/21\/google-lens-photos-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> 9to5google.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Lens has long been part of Google Photos to help you visually search images. On Android, Google Lens is now a more prominent part of Photos by identifying what pictures would benefit from the analysis and search tool. &nbsp; Today, Lens is activated by opening a photo and selecting ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":124975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4548],"tags":[15911],"class_list":["post-124964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology-en","tag-techonolgy"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google Lens tools now proactively appear in Google Photos for Android<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/en\/news-el\/technology-en\/google-lens-tools-now-proactively-appear-in-google-photos-for-android\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google Lens tools now proactively appear in Google Photos for Android\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Google Lens has long been part of Google Photos to help you visually search images. 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