Google has been busy updating Lens, its AI-powered image recognition tool, over the past year. It can recognize dog and cat breeds, is available on iOS, and on non-Pixel Android phones. Now, at I/O, Google is rolling out the latest Lens update: It will now be integrated directly into the stock camera app. It’ll start with the Pixel, but will also roll out to other Android phones like the recently announced LG G7.

The company is also rolling out several new features to Lens: smart text selection, style match, and real-time results. With smart text selection, you can do things like copy-and-paste text from the real world directly into your phone, and even quickly finding the meaning of words from a document. In a demo on stage, for example, Google showed how you could quickly tap around words on a menu, and Lens will tell you what exactly that food is, complete with visual guide and an ingredient list. Which is especially useful if the menu is in a foreign language you don’t quite understand.

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