Augmented Reality App Instantly Translates Foreign Text On Signs, Menus

If you ever wanted to be able to read text on a street sign or on a menu in a restaurant when abroad, your smartphone might be able to help you soon. Japanese electronics company Omron has developed a smartphone application that can instantly translate (short) foreign texts you come across - firing up the app and pointing the phone's camera at the text in question is enough. Omron says that in its current form, the app (which isn't available yet) can handle English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Translations are superimposed over the text shown on the display (in the picture below, you can see three items on a Korean menu shown in yellow Japanese letters).

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