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colanderman on Dec 17, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing Word Lens

No kidding... I was just sitting down to research open-source Java OCR software to do this exact thing on Android. My dreams are dashed but I'm glad someone did it...

Tichy on Dec 17, 2010 [–]

I was also thinking about this recently. Anyway, there doesn't seem to be an Android version yet...

I admit I was just thinking about reading foreign language books and translating some parts, this app takes it much further.

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