Google Translate 4+

It is definitely a very effective and versatile app. As I study Chinese, the option between direct translation thru photography and the pinyin transcription and traduction was definitely helpful for language learning. But this has disappeared as only the photography translation looks available right now. Please give the users optionality ! Thanks

The remove of the feature to select words yourself from photos has been removed along with and google lens when select the option to send text to home it sends the already translated text so it makes the transition basically useless as it double translate the text and the meaning changes a lot.
Example: when translating from an uploaded screenshot “お嬢大好き!”(I love you Milady) it translates it to “I love you girl!” Then when you select send that to home is becomes “私はあなたの女の子を愛しています!” As it sends the already translated text back thought the translation algorithm. So the App is objectively worse than version 6.35.0 as the removal of scan and pause translation is a horrible decision especially to those that are trying to learn the language as you can’t just pick out individual or small groups of words to translate from an image of a document anymore. The current version is 6.45.1 , i am thankful have another device that’s older with the previous version than is objectively superior in function. Live translation is a gimmick and the software isn’t good unless you have a Basic understanding of the other language since the content and context in a language lien Japanese is important so it’s impossible to make a perfect translation software for anything other than the literal word meaning.

The previous version of Google Translate used to be so good (old camera function) but the introduction of Google Lens instead of the old Google translate instant translator has ruined the experience for me! The new google lens does not have a scan function, it’s difficult to translate large chunks of text accurately and it only seems to translate each line as it is, and does not relate it with the next line, so the translation ends up not making sence! The only good thing that Google Lens has brought up is an instant translator option for more languages.