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Giving Lens New Reading Capabilities in Google Go

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Posted by Rajan Patel, Director, Augmented RealityGoogle LensKnowledge Graphwe announcedGoogle Go available globally in the Google Play Store

Image CaptureCameraXJetpackAndroid Camera2 APIText Recognitionoptical character recognitionregion proposal network

Hough TransformText FlowKnowledge Graphconvolutional neural networkslong short-term memoryReCaptchaGoogle Books

Left: Image with bounding box around recognized text. The raw OCR output from this image reads, “Cise is beauti640”. Right: By applying Knowledge Graph in addition to context from nearby words, Lens in Google Go recognizes the words, “life is beautiful”.

Understanding Structurehomographic distortions

Paragraph segmentation on the front page of a newspaper. Notice how “News Analysis”, which is embedded in the middle of a column, has been identified separately due to its distinct style features.

Translations in Contextneural machine translation (NMT) algorithmsReading the Text Out LoudGoogle Text-to-Speech (TTS)WaveNet Looking Ahead

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