Short Tutorial/FAQ – What is Google Lens?

Question: What is Google Lens and how can it be used?

Answer: Google Lens is a set of vision-based computing capabilities that can understand what you're looking at and use that information to copy or translate text, identify plants and animals, explore locales or menus, discover products, find visually similar images, and take other useful actions.

Using a photo, your camera, or almost any image, it helps you discover visually similar images and related content, gathering results from all over the internet.

Put simply, Google Lens lets you search what you see. Instead of entering words in the Google search bar, you can use your camera or an image to search. For example, you can use a photo to find out what plant is in your friend's apartment, what kind of dog you saw in the park, or where to buy the chair you admired in a hotel lobby. If your child is stuck on a homework problem, Google Lens can quickly find explainers, videos, and results from the web for math, history, chemistry, biology, physics, and more. When traveling abroad, you can use Google Lens to translate a building's signage in an unfamiliar language.

A picture really is worth a thousand words. Look for Google Lens (camera icon) in the search bar of the Google app.