Google also confirmed that the feature would also be coming to all the iOS devices shortly.
What is Google Lens?
Backed by Machine Learning, OCR and AI, Google Lens can identify anything in the picture you have taken from the camera. Google mentioned that the smartphones having English language set as default would only get the Lens feature in the Google Photos app. The Google Lens feature is coming to the Google Assistant in coming weeks.
How to get Google Lens feature on Android
To get the Google Lens feature, you need to download the latest Google Photos app on your smartphone. The element sits on the photos app while you are surfing pictures, the Lens icon appears at the bottom toolbar. Tap on that feature and it will detect what it can in the image and will show you the result. For now, it is just a text-based search; it can also detect phone numbers, email ids and website links from a visiting card. It can do a lot more than that like recognizing pictures or movie covers to search them on the internet. It can also “search by image” directly from the app on the Google images which is also convenient enough.
