Google's app to help blind or low-vision individuals navigate the world is now available in Canada with many new features. Google Lookout draws upon the same technology used by Google Lens, allowing you to search and take action on objects around you by pointing your phone camera.
Lookout now has two new modes: Food Label and Scan Document. Food Label helps you identify packaged food. All you have to do is point your phone's camera at the label. The app will guide you to position the product so it can identify it either through the packaging or barcode. It can be useful for putting away groceries, and you want to make sure you're handling the right products and putting them in their proper places.
Scan Document makes it easier to read letters. You can use Lookout to take a photo of the document. It will then capture the entire document's content in detail to be read aloud by your screen reader. Google has its TalkBack screen reader if you want to check that out. This feature has been designed to work better with said app. The camera view allows you to frame the object you want more information about.
Navigating between modes requires just a few taps. Lookout works on devices running Android 6.0 or later with more than 2GB of RAM. It now supports French, Italian, German, and Spanish languages, too.