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Windows Phone 7 Mango: Bing Vision OCR Text translation video

Video demo of the Bing Vision optical character recognition in Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Mango

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Here’s a neat little feature that I didn’t have the chance to check out during my Mango hands-on but that Microsoft Germany demoed during their event: Bing Vision Text Translation using optical character recognition (OCR). This feature is similar to the one found in the Android Google Docs application that was released not long ago but this time it is natively integrated into the OS. Hit the break to check it out (it starts at 1:24):

Click here for a full list of Mango features.

Thanks for the heads up TiagoSi

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