Sometimes, apps come along whose core functionality seems so magical that you feel simply obligated to try them. Word Lens, a free-with-an-asterisk app from Quest Visual, falls precisely in that ...

It's one of the stock sci-fi fantasies: Look at a sign written in another language, and it's instantly translated. And it's here, now. An iPhone app called Word Lens interprets words it sees on signs ...

Word Lens is an app that lets you translate text by scanning it with your phone. But what’s really cool about Word Lens is the way it translates text. You can point your phone’s camera at a traffic ...

Microsoft Lens is leaving app stores, with scanning support ending March 9. Existing users get a short grace period before ...

Each week, Digital Spy rounds up the biggest mobile apps for iOS and Android devices. This week's highlights include test translation service Word Lens and the arrival of the Titanfall companion app.

(Reuters) - Despite the viral nature of YouTube, entrepreneur Otavio Good was still shocked when a video of his mobile translation app, Word Lens, became a social media sensation. "It was overwhelming ...

The Google Translate app for Android lets you translate text from one language to another… but up until now if you wanted to translate text from another app, you had to copy and paste it into Google ...