How to translate text from an image with Google Goggles

If you have an Android phone (version 1.6 or higher) with you, you'll never again need to be left in the dark at a restaurant with a menu written exclusively in a foreign language. Google just improved their Goggles app with the ability to scan photos for text and translate strings from one language to another.

First, install Google Goggles on your phone. After that, all you need to do is point your camera at any text you'd like to translate and take a snapshot:



Goggles scans the photo, looking for anything it can identify as text:



Just press Translate and Goggles will attempt to autodetect the language and translate it into the default language on your phone (if it can't do so, you can specify the From and To languages manually):



Voilà! Instant translation:



In Mashable's test of this new feature, they were able to isolate text to translate from within the photo (or screen window; I couldn't tell), but I did not see that option. Instead, all scanned text was available by selecting "show all." I'd be interested to know if other users have the same experience.