Word Lens is amazing software, but from my experience with it, its results are frequently more confusing than trying to decipher the foreign language on your ow

Word Lens is amazing software, but from my experience with it, its results are frequently more confusing than trying to decipher the foreign language on your own. Word Lens shines when you are using it on text that is large, on a plain background, in good lighting, and a recognized font. If one or more of those conditions are not met, your results will likely be less than satisfactory. For example, trying to use Word Lens to read most restaurant menus is usually not productive, in my experience. I love the spirit of the software and what it is trying to accomplish. I just don't feel that it is yet useful for translating most of the text you may be trying to read. A good companion to Word Lens is the Google Translate app. I found the Google Translate app was much more accurate when I took pictures of text that I wanted translated. The downside to the Google Translate app is that it requires a data connection which can be tricky when traveling in another country.