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      Google Goggles

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      Search by taking a picture: point your mobile phone camera at a painting, a famous landmark, a barcode or QR code, a product, or a popular image. If Goggles finds it in its database, it will provide you with useful information.

      Goggles can read text in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish, and translate it into other languages.

      Goggles also works as a barcode / QR code scanner.

      Features:
      - Scan barcodes using Goggles to get product information
      - Scan QR codes using Goggles to extract information
      - Recognize famous landmarks
      - Translate by taking a picture of foreign language text
      - Add Contacts by scanning business cards or QR codes
      - Scan text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
      - Recognize paintings, books, DVDs, CDs, and just about any 2D image
      - Solve Sudoku puzzles
      - Find similar products

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      Reviews

      4.0
      317,831 total
      5 165,045
      4 70,689
      3 37,432
      2 16,059
      1 27,984
      Deb Roberts
      Didn't work, even once! I've tried to identify a few different things and the app said there were no matches. I tried taking a picture of my cat and it didn't know what that was either. What does it know?
      Mexie Mex
      Alas no more! This used to be a real killer app, now it doesn't even run on a stock device (Galaxy S5), is this Google giving up on Android? I hope not, but as this is a core app, am I more interested in Android than the company running it?
      Farrukh Shahzad Mir
      Looong issue with galaxy note 2,3,4 I am facing long issue since long time. Its custom frame is not taking pictures according to the selwcted frame area but it showes the complete area visible after taking picture and search the full image instead of a selected area.
      Abhijit Das
      Not scanning properly There is a potential bug in the latest version of goggle. If you scan a page full of writing it will height or find a few words or letter. Previously I never faces that issue please fix it asap or people will start uninstalling goggle because it is not doing the basis things for which goggle was developed.
      Jonathan Greco
      Wtf? Are you serious? This app is Cr_app. I'm trying to find out a piece of jewelery and it has no matches. Nothing is recognized with this app. Don't waste your time with this
      Mom Mom
      No matter what you take a pic of it says no match found. I took pictures of a variety of object and nothing returned any results

      User reviews

      Deb Roberts July 20, 2015
      Didn't work, even once! I've tried to identify a few different things and the app said there were no matches. I tried taking a picture of my cat and it didn't know what that was either. What does it know?
      Full Review
      Mexie Mex March 10, 2015
      Alas no more! This used to be a real killer app, now it doesn't even run on a stock device (Galaxy S5), is this Google giving up on Android? I hope not, but as this is a core app, am I more interested in Android than the company running it?
      Full Review
      Farrukh Shahzad Mir November 10, 2014
      Looong issue with galaxy note 2,3,4 I am facing long issue since long time. Its custom frame is not taking pictures according to the selwcted frame area but it showes the complete area visible after taking picture and search the full image instead of a selected area.
      Full Review
      Abhijit Das September 30, 2014
      Not scanning properly There is a potential bug in the latest version of goggle. If you scan a page full of writing it will height or find a few words or letter. Previously I never faces that issue please fix it asap or people will start uninstalling goggle because it is not doing the basis things for which goggle was developed.
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      Jonathan Greco January 29, 2015
      Wtf? Are you serious? This app is Cr_app. I'm trying to find out a piece of jewelery and it has no matches. Nothing is recognized with this app. Don't waste your time with this
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      Mom Mom December 26, 2014
      No matter what you take a pic of it says no match found. I took pictures of a variety of object and nothing returned any results
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      Wilton Woods March 14, 2015
      Identify objects with this Great for identifying buildings to get their history or military equipment to see who's spying on you or to get make and model of anything you photograph. Also searches like images and connects you to their makers, so really powerful stuff here. And you're the authority if goggles can't identify it, you tell us what it is. I started identifying aliens, for instance, so everybody can know what I think is there. ;-) @wiltonwoods
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      david fulcher September 18, 2015
      Google Goggles Needs Glasses I took a picture of a lighter and it said "item not found" and it's simular image was an elephant! WTF?? Really?
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      Monica Booker July 24, 2014
      Sucks I brought a plant, scanned it to see what it was and it led me to a group of green items... like wth! The analyzing bar doesn't even go all the way across before it says it unknown
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      Niles Black June 19, 2015
      Hopefully they'll come back around to this In the meantime, looks like it hasn't been updated in years. No material design, no autofocus?! On an app for scanning barcodes? I'd love to see Google revisit this concept someday, and do it right.
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      Daniel McCloskey July 3, 2014
      Doesn't do what you'd expect. Matched an antique doll... with painted toenails. What??? Basically looks like it matches image for image. Matching colors by quantity? Can't "recognize" a turd from chocolate cream pie. All of this...with a tasty dose of Google GPS data collected. Should be better by now, right? Nah. Just use it and the can collect your data and interests by sifting photos for them.
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      Cretu Daniel November 4, 2014
      OCR function does not work anymore... Does not making OCR anymore. It is showing tha isscanning the picture but tells me that nothing is found. Before the update it ould find text in the picture. Please fix it. For me this isan important future of this application.
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      Jordyn Nitch November 2, 2015
      Update I think people really don't understand the power of this app, I can't understand how people would believe it would magically be able to identify what dog you have. It can be used as ocr, to identify famous monuments and bar code scanner which I think is great.
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      Michel Meyers August 4, 2014
      Fails completely. Doesn't want to snap a picture any more, no matter how I tap on the camera icon. (App no longer usable this way.)
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      Aaron V August 31, 2015
      Finally works. Took a picture of Mickey Mouse. Got beige high heels. ...I'm a GUY. UNINSTALLED. Hasn't been updated since November of 2013. Clearly YOU don't even care about this. UPDATE: Out of fairness, tried again. Took a picture of my daughter's toy bag. Got a "similar" of a woman in a US flag bikini with an assault rifle. Get drug tested, Google. REuninstalled. UPDATE 2: Tried again. Found a couple of uncommon cleaners with no problems.
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      Doruk Çelebi June 7, 2015
      Doesn't work for shit except paintings Can't identify basic objects, below average in real life images
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      A Google User December 26, 2014
      Coolest App Ever! Still not perfect Though! You know it's really cool app it's not perfect.. But love using it when I feel like it. I wish to use it when I am in front of some monument and see if it will really work and show me a pictures based on it.
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      Michael Anderson February 13, 2015
      No Longer Works I loved this app and have been using it since it came out with great success. It's decoded many pictures for me no problem. It no longer works. Everything i scan stops scanning halfway through. Everything comes up as no match found. I am not sure what happened but please fix this app. I'll rate 5 stars if it starts working again.
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      Writankar Bhattacharya August 4, 2015
      Not very good Searched a person's photo. Only for similar photos wearing the same type of dress
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      Brandon M. July 11, 2015
      Outdated but still good It's a great app don't get me wrong but it just feels inconvenient to use. It's ui doesn't match any other Google applications. Picture quality seems to be lacking and low light performance is terribld(stock camera works great still) which makes me think that it's about time Google looks are reviving this handy tool
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      John Fowler January 15, 2015
      If it's bugged say so Google! Scan bar doesn't complete full sweep of image and doesn't recognise clear images that it definitely should do (such as an xbox controller or a Ford badge). Those that say it works are not using this version (dl'd 15th Jan '15) or this "bug" doesn't effect their device (mine is a samsung galaxy S4 mini). First time I bothered commenting because so disappointed - I had this app on another phone over three years ago and it not only worked it had a much less clunky interface for selecting pics. Sort it out!
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      James T. Brohard July 15, 2014
      Needs lots of work. Add cropping option to pictures loaded from phone. When Goggles cannot find an item, and I find out what it is via a descriptive Google search; I wish I could add the picture and a link/description of the item to the database through the app. Right now most of the time the things it finds are completely unrelated. I would give it 5 stars if it were more accurate. At least it still does QR codes well.
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      Karami Best May 16, 2015
      It did me no good. I wish there was an app that helped you identify anything and get information on things you take a photo of and where to buy it if a possibility
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      Erykah Martin September 12, 2014
      Hmmm So read the bad reviews and thought to give it a go anyway.... However like everyone else said the app couldn't ID anything I tried.... Not even a ps3 controller. Thanks for trying though :)
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      Andrew Wittkower July 23, 2015
      Not worth it I have had this app for 2 weeks and haven't used it at all. Its so much easier to use Google or chrome. Don't waist time and storage.
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      michelle kawa September 29, 2014
      Doesnt match It doesnt recognize anything this app is useless and a waste of space. Make it work and you might get better ratings!
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      Drew Mills July 9, 2014
      Not so good yet First 5 items I tried could not be recognized. I give them credit for trying.
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      Cory Edwards August 11, 2014
      Needs fixes Four of five items were not correctly identified. Try to use it for facial recognition of a celebrity image. scan stops almost at the beginning of the image.
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      Maarg Vaidya December 31, 2014
      Hey! Google Hey! Google I don't know if you take feedback but why don't you add feature for facial recognition for celebrities.I know that you cannot add it for the whole world it can be a security glitch. Thumbs Up!
      Full Review
      Randy Faldon April 13, 2015
      It's been improved since my last rating and "works" most of the time. I'm not sure if Google is saving every picture or not. :-\
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      Luis Martinez December 1, 2014
      Cool idea It was a really cool idea but the fact that Google glasses never actually works and seems to have more issues than anything is a large problem if one day this application does ever actually work as needed I have intended I will download and review again
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      A Google User May 21, 2015
      Cool idea, but crashes often Great app, but it kept on crashing, especially when the notification 'new goggles results' appeared. Most likely because I have a much earlier operating system (2011).
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      Nickntabby Tipsword August 5, 2014
      Sucks Can't find anything I take a pic of except the obvious stuff... Take a pic of a bug, can't tell you what it is. take a picture of a bug on a wall it brings up pictures of walls.....
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      Richard Pearn September 14, 2014
      Usless utter usless Only scans a portion of the image and jumps to its own conclusion and if its wrong you can't just carry on to scan image further you have to start again and guess what you get the same results, love the idea hate the execution
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      C Angell December 19, 2014
      Goggles puts an end to searching I love google goggles because if I see something in a picture, and I want to buy it, it easily helps me to find it, which eliminates hours of searching online.. Its not always 100% accurate but its close!
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      Shane Archer January 6, 2015
      Goggles I am not sure what the other negative reviews are about. I have a note 3 and this thing works flawlessly every time. I have even scanned very obscure articles and it has given me authors and publishing dates. I have scanned pictures and it has shown me where they came from on the internet if they did. I have scanned logos and it has never failed to tell me who the company is. I am truly sorry for those for whom it did not work. I recommend 100% to give it a try.
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      Thomas Humke October 6, 2015
      Doesn't work I had spent all morning trying to find what this random flag in my building belonged to. I was told by a co-worker what it was. Please fix.
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      Edy G October 21, 2014
      Not working at all I tried the apps by taking a picture of a screwdriver, but the apps is always saying no match found. How can a search engine search based on image and cannot find minimum a description of the image? The only thing that this apps will work with clear text (like document text). So, it is not real image base search engine.
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      Ben S October 20, 2015
      Simply Awful I took 7 different photos I grabbed from Google image search. It's funny but you'd think that the app would be able to locate the same photos that Google Reverse image search did find. I'll explain. I also ran the same photos through "Image raider" Web based engine that accesses the Google Reverse Image search site. It found all 7 no problem. I tried Tineye next and it located 4 of 7. Then I tried the Web based version of Google Reverse image search, which is impossible to access if you're not using Google Chrome (use Image raider instead). It found all 7. This app however found ZERO, Nadia, ZILCH. My advice is simple. Don't bother with the time it takes to download the app. It's a waste. SIMPLY AWFUL!
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      caetano constantine October 18, 2014
      Was OK...... Now a joke. It identifies nothing....I guess funding for this project has stopped.
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      May 28, 2014
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      10,000,000 - 50,000,000
      Current Version
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