Google enhanced its Goggles application to read and translate English, French, Italian, German, or Spanish after pictures of words are taken with cameras built into smartphones such as the Internet giant's Nexus One.
"We are hard at work extending our recognition capabilities to other Latin-based languages," Google software engineers Alessandro Bissacco and Avi Flamholz said in a message posted at the California firm's website. "Our goal is to eventually read non-Latin languages (such as Chinese, Hindi and Arabic) as well."
Goggles is "computer vision" software that lets smartphone users do Internet searches based on pictures taken with the gadgets instead of typed in search queries.
Along with translation, the latest version of Goggles was enhanced to better read bar codes and recognize a larger array of artwork, products, and logos.
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