Google Lens is one of the few consumer tools that rarely gets the attention it deserves. You can search for real-world objects, look up items, translate languages, and more right from your smartphone’s camera. You can also search for images right from Lens with a neat trick. Let’s take a quick look at Google Lens.

Google Lens is a visual recognition software that lets you scan and search for objects around you. This opens up a whole new world of possibilities in translation, shopping, web search, locations, and more. Google Lens was announced in 2017 and has come a long way since its release. You can now identify objects, reverse search for them, and even get language translations in real time.

Google Lens uses a complex algorithm to identify objects through your camera’s viewfinder. These objects are then compared to a huge database of images, and similar images are ranked by relevance by Lens. Lens also checks your objects and images against thousands of listings from across the web to find the most relevant results. These relevant results are also found by taking into account nearby language and symbols to give you the most accurate results. That’s all you can do with Google Lens.

Google Lens offers you 7 special categories to search for objects, images, locations and more in real-time, right from your phone. These special categories can help you reverse search and find relevant results with a single tap on your device. To use any of the categories, simply tap and select the one you want to use at the bottom of your screen in Google Lens. Let’s take a quick look at these 7 categories.