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Words Lens Screenshots

iPad

iPhone

About Words Lens

If you are reading a master's book and find there are more than a few words that you're not so sure, then this app is for you. By snapping the pages with your phone's camera you'll be able to quickly find the meanings of the more complicated words you may encounter.

This app is also a good way to snap signs, brochures etc to move quickly without having to spend a lot of time to look up the words one by one.

As of this version, the app automatically skips the most common 4000 words in lookup if your device's current language is English. It skips the most common 2000 words in lookup if your device's preferred languages include English. It will look up every word if English is not the current or one of the preferred languages on the device.

What's New in the Latest Version 1.9

Last updated on Jan 22, 2022

Old Versions

- Bug fixes
- Added a button to invoke Google translate from scanned text view.
- Added an option to stop the ads.

Version History

1.9

Jan 22, 2022

- Bug fixes
- Added a button to invoke Google translate from scanned text view.
- Added an option to stop the ads.

1.8

Apr 27, 2021

- Fixed the bug that caused the failure when saving manually entered text.
- Fixed a crash on iPad when sharing text.

1.7

Dec 21, 2020

- Improved the text area selection for images selected from library
- Bug fixes for Text Edit mode and multiple selection deletions

1.6

Nov 2, 2020

- Added detection of phone numbers, addresses, dates etc in the scanned text. Users can turn off this feature in the app's settings.

1.5.1

Nov 1, 2020

- Minor improvement on single column scans to avoid excessive new lines for some sparsely laid out texts.

1.5

Oct 20, 2020

- Added detection of diacritic (accent) marks in many European languages.

1.4.1

May 1, 2020

Minor fixes.

1.4

Feb 3, 2020

- Users can now merge multiple scanned text into a single text file.
- Users can now select a photo from Photos library for text scanning.

1.3

Jan 28, 2020

- Added support for multi-column text scanning and recognition, similar to the text format of magazines.

1.2

Jan 21, 2020

- Allows editing on scanned text;
- Added sharing of scanned text;
- Added stem format of a word in the words list if it's also above user's current estimated vocabulary level.

1.1

Dec 16, 2019

- The app now stores and displays all scanned text;
- A Settings view is added for users to adjust their vocabulary levels;
- Users can now choose to highlight selected words in the scanned text, or choose to ignore some other words.

1.0

Dec 3, 2019

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