The app lets you translate written phrases simply by pointing your iPhone's camera at them. The app's optical character recognition technology recognizes the text, which is then translated and shown on your iPhone's screen instead of the original text. With today's technology, it's not hard to imagine an application like Word Lens, but it's quite amazing if you remember that ten years ago it was i
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