Google beefs up Drive’s document scanning feature and brings it to iPhone
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#6GR5T)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Drive users on iOS are getting a new scanning feature that lets them quickly photograph documents and add them to their libraries, the search giant has announced. The feature has been available for Android for over a decade, but until now iPhone and iPad users haven't had the same option. Google has also upgraded the scanner in Drive's Android app.
iPhone users in the US will also benefit from a new title suggestion feature that attempts to auto-generate a document title based on text it recognizes in the scan. The feature previously came to the Android version of Drive earlier this year. Google also says it's improving document scanning on Android, adding similar features like the option to automatically capture documents when...