Google Translate app updated to translate text from photos

Google’s translation app for Android has been updated to translate text from pictures taken with the device’s camera.

Users can take pictures of signs, books or any other legible text and then “brush” to highlight the portion they want to translated. The feature, compatible with the app’s previous ability to translate between 64 languages, can be extremely useful when traveling or when reading a foreign language book, assuming you have access to an internet connection.

At this time the translate from picture feature is compatible only with Android 2.3