Google Lens in Chrome also detects text in images

The Google Lens functionality that has recently been baked into the Chrome web browser now recognizes text in addition to objects in images. This allows users to immediately use text in an image as a search term, copy it or immediately translate it.

The discovery was made by the editors of 9to5Google. It found that when a user right-clicks on an image in the Chrome browser and then clicks the option to search for an image using Google Lens, a new page of Google Lens search results appears. Here you can choose to search for the content of the image, to search directly for the text in the image or to use that text to translate immediately.

At the end of March, Google removed the functionality to search for an image via Google Images from the context menu of Chrome. This was replaced by a new option, image search with Google Lens. Google Lens is a feature to get more context about an image.

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