Nearly useless

I bought this for a recent trip to Japan despite the negative reviews. I was hoping the bad reviews were exaggerated. Alas, they were not. The app claims to recognize words, but I found it rarely was able to decipher more than one character at a time. It is extremely picky about the photo, if you happen to get an edge or some other line in the photo, it throws off the translation. For academic purposes only, Id imagine. Or for folks with a lot of free time.

Traveler6898 about Japan Goggles