The app for mobile phone application known as ‘Goggles’ gets a new update that aids in translating text in photos.

The update that earlier helped in converting of a text in an image into various languages, substitutes the old system that searched for images taken by the phone's camera, states a blog posted in Google Mobile blog.

The post further claimed of image translation in to text based translation which will prove handy for tourists to translate text from foreign languages into their own.

This translation as of now is restricted to English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, but the post claimed of adding various other languages using a non-Latin alphabet will be added to the database soon.

An array of features such as improved barcode recognition, a wider database of products and logos, enhanced user interface and the capability to perform a visual search on images stored in the phone's photo gallery are some of the features were added in the latest update.