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Google Goggles Is Good At Turning Business Cards Into Contacts

Android: Today’s update to Google Goggles brings improved business card recognition to the search-by-photo app, streamlining the process of converting a colleague’s business card into a digital contact. Goggles had biz card recognition previously, but it has gotten much better at turning cards to contacts since we first mentioned the feature.


January 14, 2011
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Google Goggles History Now Viewable On Your Computer

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Google Googles can perform neat tricks like solving Sudoku as well as performing image-based searches, but for now it only runs on mobile devices. However, you can access an archive of the pictures you’ve snapped in Goggles online.


January 11, 2011
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Google Goggles Can Now Solve Sudoku Puzzles Automatically

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Google Goggles has always impressed us with its ability to identify images and translate text. The new version 1.3 has an extra trick up its sleeve: take a picture of a Sudoku puzzle and it will solve it for you.


December 11, 2010
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Use Google Goggles To Find Desktop Wallpapers

If you’ve ever been on a site and seen a screenshot with a really cool wallpaper, you no longer have to go searching for it yourself—reader jovke1994 reminds us that Google Goggles can do the searching for you.


May 7, 2010
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Google Goggles Can Now Translate Foreign Text From A Picture

Android: Google’s Goggles app for Android can now translate foreign text that you capture (and crop) with your phone’s camera, potentially helping with signage, papers and other text found while travelling. In a quick test, it fared, well, interesting.