Babel Shot: Automatic Text Translation With The iPhone Camera

Automatically translate restaurant menus, hotel booklets, product manuals, or snippets from books and newspapers without typing anything on iPhone keyboard. Simply take a close-up picture of

printed text and this app will recognize and immediately translate it into another language (see hardware requirements below). As a backup to camera input, you can always enter text manually, just like with any other translator app.

Languages supported for camera input: Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish.

Languages supported for manual input: all of the above, plus Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

You can translate text into any language listed above, regardless of input method used.

Hardware requirements:
✓ For full camera input capabilities, iPhone 3GS or previous generation iPhone with Clarifi case is required.
✓ iPhone and iPhone 3G users without Clarifi case are limited to translating large text only (1/3″ or bigger), or using manual input.
✓ iPod Touch users can only use manual input.
✓ Wi-Fi or cellular connection is required for translation but not for text recognition.

Features:
✓ Input text using iPhone camera or by typing it on keyboard.
✓ Rotate photo to achieve correct orientation.
✓ Preview text recognition results and correct if needed.
✓ Save translated text along with original photo or text for future reference.
✓ If Internet connection is not available, your input can be optionally saved and translated later when connection restores.
✓ Copy and paste translated text into outgoing e-mail or SMS.
✓ Convenient button for swapping source and target languages.
✓ Polished and streamlined user interface.
✓ Completely ad-free.

Things we are working on in future versions (see website for updates):
✓ Adding camera input for more languages.
✓ Improving speed and accuracy of text recognition.
✓ Optimizing text selection workflow.
✓ Landscape mode.