Word Lens: real-time translator with augmented reality from Quest Visual

The North American company Quest Visual has developed an augmented reality application Word Lens for smartphones and iPhones, that allows you to translate text in real time.

Practical and functional, This is how those responsible for Quest Visual developing your Word Lens app, that translates from English to Spanish and vice versa any text that a smartphone's video camera can read with augmented reality technology.

Word Lens translates maintains the same perspective shown by a smartphone's video camera and modifies the text on the screen in real time without requiring an Internet connection.

This translator is based on an optical character recognition system (OCR) that allows you to translate texts, posters, etc. that the camera captures, and whose result is displayed in real time, maintaining the perspective in which the user is and modifying the text on the smartphone screen.