Abstract
- Google’s Magnifier app is an accessibility software, permitting customers to enlarge objects, learn tiny textual content, and affords options like Lens integration, picture sharing, and coloration changes through their system.
- The most recent replace (model 2.0.0.745828117) introduces a live-view textual content search characteristic, letting customers discover particular phrases in real-time just by pointing their digital camera, with no need to snap a photograph first.
- This new performance streamlines the method of discovering textual content, highlighting matching phrases in yellow and permitting customers to cycle by way of all situations discovered on display.
Google’s Magnifier app, as its identify suggests, is a devoted accessibility software that lets Pixel customers make the most of their system’s digital camera to enlarge the world round them.
The app not solely lets customers zoom in on faraway objects and tiny textual content on menus, it additionally lets customers hop proper right into a Lens occasion, share the snapped picture, modify the picture’s colours with filters, distinction controls, brightness, and extra.
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The app is the jack of all trades, and it has simply gained new performance that makes it all of the extra helpful.
Magnifier is taking a web page out of the Challenge Astra playbook, and it might now perceive on-screen context to an extent. By way of the newest secure replace (model 2.0.0.745828117), out there now on the Play Retailer, Google has built-in a live-view textual content search characteristic into the Magnifier app.
‘Discover’ after snapping a photograph (outdated)
The event, first highlighted by 9to5Google, is a top quality of life addition that removes extra hurdles that include studying tiny textual content. For instance, for instance you are searching for a selected dish on a restaurant menu. Beforehand, you’d have to snap a fast image of the menu and use the ‘Discover’ software to search for fast key phrases for the dish. If the Magnifier app discovered that particular phrase on the menu, it’s going to spotlight it in inexperienced, and even zoom in on it. That is what the screenshot above highlights.
Now, the app is basically decreasing the steps wanted to shortly discover particular phrases by one.
‘Discover’ in reside view (new)
As an alternative of capturing a picture first, Magnifier customers can now merely level their system’s digital camera on the object of curiosity and shortly seek for the phrase they’re searching for. Mentioned phrases are highlighted in yellow. Customers can then faucet the acquainted magnifying glass icon to cycle by way of all situations of the phrase discovered on the display.
If model 2.0.0.745828117 of the Magnifier app is offered to you, you can begin using the characteristic as quickly as you replace the app. If the brand new construct is not out there to you but, you may sideload it from APKMirror.