Seems like a extremely useful tool, just needs to not be Google, any alt recommendations welcome!

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    My main gripe with Google Lens is that it replaced Google Image Search on their browser. Used to be able to drag/drop an image into Google and it’d do an instant search for all similar/identical images. Now it opens Google Lens and it just gives me a bunch of “related links” instead of a proper image search.

    To get the old functionality back, I need to use a “Google image search” add-on in my Firefox browser. It opens the old Google image search page.

    I mostly use it to find higher resolution versions of old, grainy images, but Google Lens took that functionality away from me.

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      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.

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        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 😂

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        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.

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      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.

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    I’m just a hobbyist, and not familiar with anything specific, or prepackaged in an app, but there are probably examples posted in the projects section of hugging face (=like the github + dev social-ish thing for AI). I’m not sure what is really possible locally as far as machine vision + text recognition + translation. I think it would be really difficult to build an accurate model to do this on the limited system memory of a phone. I’m not sure what/if Google is offloading onto their servers to make this happen or if they are tuning the hell out of an AI model to get it small enough. I mean, there is a reason why the Pixel line has a SoC called a Tensor core, (it is designed for AI), but I haven’t explored models or toolchains for mobile deployment.

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    Yandex has the best reverse image search, and I think it can also identify some stuff or products in the image. I don’t think it does text tho, I could be wrong.

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      No, you can take a picture of something and it will pick out data from the image. e.g. You could photograph a menu in another language and translate it. It’s also a QR code scanner. It might do other things I don’t know about.

      Edit: ok, reading this thread it does lots of other stuff 😆

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      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

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    If it’s only for a reverse image search, I use tineye.com . That being said, it doesn’t have all the functionalities of lens, like it doesn’t have an integrated AI to recognize the content of a pic or anything…

    For copying text from a real world document, I also use OCR, which you can find on F-Droid.