Android supporters can fasten their seatbelts for Google’s new tool Google Goggles Android application.

Google unveiled its Google Goggles image-based text translation feature this morning. The app, incorporated into the new 1.1 edition of the Goggles app, lets you to point your phone's camera at any block of text and have it instantly translated into your native language.

Using the Google Goggles translation tool is very easy. After downloading the latest version of the Goggles app, you just open the app and target your cellphone at text. It can be on a road icon, a menu, or almost anything else that you can imagine.

Once you have your aimed text in view, you can enhance your chances of getting a good translation by working in on the exact words that you wish for and obstructing everything else out. You achieve this by means of an easy new crop tool, available through an on-screen icon, to choose the part of the screen that's relevant.

Though its translation is far from perfect, it is satisfactory to a certain extent. If you are overseas and trying to go through a document, you can most likely get a general view of it what it is all about.