Babelshot: Translate Instantly Using Phone Camera App Reviews

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Great for fast translation of printed materal and for messages

Wrong Description! Does NOT support all the languages which are described (e.g. Estonia) - so I can only rate it with 1* I dont know how the App actually works...

It don’t recognize ANY thai letter perfect. Even not in big black font size on white screen. DONT BUY

Wait an upgrade for Thai language

Absolute crap, bought this app for Hebrew and all I get is just absolutely ridiculous gibberish, no use at all.

Very cool and handy. Make sure the picture is good quality.

This app is a must have. Set it to Eng > Eng + picture = OCR engine.

This app is awesome but it would be more awesome if it could convert pictures from my photos library to translated text. Also the OCR needs more improvement.

The best translator program I have had or seen

Love the app, and finally for once a company has truthfully told me whether they are working on Chinese support for OCR or not. Pictranslate--no reply and that was the end of that. Babelshot at least told me that due to hardware limitations they might revisit OCR for chinese when the new iPhone comes out and depends on whether the CPU is powerful enough! Thank you!! Thats what I wanted to know. Ill be sticking with babelshot...unless some app comes out with server side OCR recognition for Chinese characters!

Would actually be useful if the app could recognize the language rather than the user setting it before taking a photo. Also why cant it recognize Russian or Ukrainian? A waste of money if you ask me. Use google. Its free and works better.

I tried about 6 times. It worked once

It gets a lot of words wrong

POS app. Doesnt work at all for Chinese

Japanese translations does not work.

Looks promising but just spins on OCR.

Suprisingly accurate character recognition. But please add Japanese characters to the photo character recognition software. Thanks!

This version "reads" photographed items better (though not perfectly).

It does not work, I sent several emails and never got her proper response! it does not translate Japanese to English proper? I asked for guidance I I reloaded twice still does not translate like it shows in the video. I even set the example I had simple translation, I received no response.