A very common situation when visiting a foreign country is when we go to a restaurant, order the menu, read it, and don't understand a single word of the language. So we order anything and end up feeling a bit uncomfortable.
For this reason, we're going to introduce you to five environments that let you translate any text from your mobile device's camera. Most of the environments we'll list give you the ability to translate from camera to text and to voice. You'll also be able to choose the language to translate from a large database.
Google Translate
Google Translate is one of the best free camera translator platforms for iOS and Android devices. With the program, you can translate using the camera, text, voice, and conversation. It can also translate without an internet connection. Camera translation supports more than 90 languages, while text translation supports more than 100 languages. In both cases, you'll have 59 languages available in the offline version. From the camera, you'll get the following translation options: Snapshot (live translation), scan (capture image), and import (image with text from gallery).
Scan & Translate
Scan & Translate extracts texts from any printed source: documents, books, posters, ads, or instructions. Then it translates them immediately into 90 languages. Later, you can read, listen to, and share the texts on social networks. Scan & Translate is a free program for Android.
Microsoft Translator
Microsoft Translator is an intelligent camera translator platform that you can use on iOS devices. Apart from translating via the camera, it also supports text, voice, and conversation translation with support for more than 60 languages.
Camera Translator: Translate+
Camera Translator is another very good platform for iOS devices to translate texts from the camera. The program supports more than 100 languages and gives you an instant translation result.
Camera Translator
Camera Translator is an environment that, thanks to its OCR service, lets you translate any printed text from your phone's camera. You can also convert the text to audio. Camera Translator is a free program available for Android devices.
Now when you're in a restaurant and you don't understand what the menu says, take out your phone, and using its camera, translate it into your native language. Among many other things, of course.
