If you’ve been using Google Lens extensively on your smartphone, then your Chrome browser too will now be able to use the same features in the latest update.
Google Lens is now integrated into the browser to make it easier to search for anything on the web. With the Lens, you can also easily copy and paste and translate text from any images which provide a faster OCR functionality. It comes a week after the company launched multisearch on the Android and iOS apps.
According to the latest report by Android Police, the functionality is available to everyone on the latest version of Google Chrome for desktops. Right-clicking on an image will provide an option to ‘search using Google Lens’. With the new feature, Google Chrome becomes easier to use for productivity purposes and helps instantly use other Google services like Translate.
Here is everything you need to know about the new feature and how to use it.
What’s new?
While it was previously easy to just search or lookup images through Chrome, there was no way to translate any particular text that was in the image except to use Google Lens on the smartphone. However, all of those capabilities are now available through the desktop browser as well without any hassles.
The interface is streamlined to make it easy to search for text, translate them or search for similar images on the web.
How can you use the new features?
Once you’ve updated to the latest version of Chrome for desktop, there are no other additional steps required to start using them. Here’s how you can use the Google Lens feature:
- Right-click on any image that you’re interested in searching on the web.
- You will see ‘Search using Google Lens’ as one of the options.
- A new window opens with a section of the image in Google Lens’ signature scanner UI that we also see in Google Pay. The window will also display relevant web search results in a panel on the right.
- At the bottom, the browser provides you will three separate tabs - Search, Text and Translate.
Chrome is now a complete productivity app in itself
With this latest update, Google Chrome feels almost like a complete productivity tool. While integrating many of its existing cloud services, the Google Lens feature will now make it easier to work with images and texts directly from the browser without being limited to another application.
Although Microsoft's Edge browser does provide a similar feature, the experience on Chrome feels more streamlined all due the benefit of being the best search engine in the world.
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