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Google Goggles is a mobile application from Google, Inc. that performs optical recognition tasks such as scanning a barcode or translating text via the phone's camera.

Google Goggles is a mobile application from Google, Inc. that performs optical recognition tasks such as scanning a barcode or translating text via the phone's camera.

From the Google Play description:

Search by taking a picture: point your mobile phone camera at a painting, a famous landmark, a barcode or QR code, a product, a storefront, or a popular image. If Goggles finds it in its database, it will provide you with useful information.

Goggles can read text in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish, and translate it into other languages.

Goggles also works as a barcode / QR code scanner.

Features:

  • Scan barcodes using Goggles to get product information
  • Scan QR codes using Goggles to extract information
  • Recognize famous landmarks
  • Translate by taking a picture of foreign language text
  • Add Contacts by scanning business cards or QR codes
  • Scan text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  • Recognize paintings, books, DVDs, CDs, and just about any 2D image
  • Solve Sudoku puzzles
  • Find similar products
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Google goggles API

Does anyone know if there is a google goggles API for Android? If not, is there one coming any time soon? With an API for this thing the possibilities are endless... So far all I've been able to find on this subject is a discussion about not…
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How to integrate Google lens in my app?

I want to integrate google lens services into my android application, but I am not getting any straight forward approach to implement it, neither any library nor any Google API's. Any one can help me to implement google lens into my android app. If…
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How to decode protobuf binary response

I have created a test app that can recognize some image using Goggle Goggles. It works for me, but I receive binary protobuf response. I have no proto-files, just binary response. How can I get data from it? (Have sent some image with bottle of…
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API for Google Goggles or Visual Search?

Are there any APIs similar to Google Goggles that accepts a picture as input and outputs text descriptions? In other words, we're looking for a visual search API. if we submit photos, we want the service to say what the item is and provide a brief…
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Crop image ala Google Goggles

I'm trying to do some ROI (region of interest) selection in my app, but I don´t know, how to create some kind of resizable (by fingers) rectangle like you can see in Google Goggles. Can you help me? Is there any source code example?
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Google Goggles Camera Autofocus

The Google Goggles app auto-focuses considerably better than the default Camera app on my Nexus 4 (and other phones/tablets I tried on). In fact, it does it so good I think they do it software. Does anyone know how the Goggles app does the autofocus…
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Issue in using Zxing via intent if google goggles is installed

I am using following code to invoke Barcode scanner apps from Zing public Button.OnClickListener mScan = new Button.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v) { Intent intent = new Intent("com.google.zxing.client.android.SCAN"); …
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Using Zxing and Google Goggles with my app

I have an app, i used this code to integrate zxing public Button.OnClickListener mScan = new Button.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v) { Intent intent = new Intent("com.google.zxing.client.android.SCAN"); …
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Google Goggles API/Or workaround

i have read the thread Google Goggles API. and From NotAnotherCodeBlog have created a c# implementation using the sample code. Has anyone been able to get it working recently? i know the API isn't documented and as such may have changed so its…
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Google Goggles API workaround issues in PHP

I've been tearing my hair out with the following all day: I'm attempting to send manual requests to Google Goggles with PHP-ported code from this blog post: http://notanothercodeblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-goggles-api.html The original blog…
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Use Camera to capture Text. Android?

I want to do something like a Google Googles but use only the Camera to text feature in it. I want to use the camera to take picture of a text image, and convert it into text for use with in a edit text. Is this possible. How to do this? Any kind of…
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Android Intent to Google Goggles always results in RESULT_CANCELLED. How do I bring back a legitimate result to my Activity?

So, I've been trying to use the Google Goggles Intent, so I can use the scanner as an OCR device. I've used the following code in my Activity: Intent intent = new Intent("com.google.zxing.client.android.SCAN"); …
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Google Goggles via IntentIntegrator Works But No 'Capture' Button

I've done some research (Stack Overflow and on the web) and see that there are some other questions about Google Goggles and the possibility of using it with Android; via an Intent. I realize it is not officially supported and that we are all still…
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Get callBack from Goggles

I know that there are not an API for google toggle. But it listen to com.google.zxing.client.android.SCAN So with Intent intent = new Intent("com.google.zxing.client.android.SCAN"); startActivity(intent); i can open goggles app. My question is, it…
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zxing intent "google goggles" doesn't recognize barcodes

I've made a little App for android with Zxing Intent, but it has a problem, because google goggles receives the Intent and do nothing, because it's not capable of decoding barcodes. Is there a way to restrict google goggles, but not other Barcode …
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