Google Drive gets major document scanning boost on Android to tempt you from Adobe Scan

Date:
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:44:03 +0000

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Google Drive will soon be able to automatically fix up your scanned images on Android.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Google Drive update brings big improvements to document scanning The app will be
able to automatically reduce shadows, fix lighting, and more Its rolling out to Android, but theres no word on an iOS version

Google Drive is making a play to become one of the best document scanning
apps around with its latest update, and it could help to make your scans
crisp and clear like you always intended all without you having to lift a finger.

Lets face it, even when using one of the best Android phones , scanning documents can often feel hit or miss, with bad lighting and distracting shadows often conspiring to ruin your images. With this Google Drive update, that might hopefully become a thing of the past.

The update is coming to the Google Drive for Android app, as per a recent Google blog post . The article explains that Drive will be able to digitize paper documents into higher quality images much faster.

Thats because youll no longer need to spend ages fiddling with your Google Drive scans to make them clear and legible instead, the app will handle all that for you. Automatic enhancements (Image credit: Shutterstock)

As Google explains, Depending on the document, auto enhancement will perform actions like white balance correction, shadow removal, contrast enrichment, auto sharpening, light improvement, and more.

That should help banish blemishes without you having to do much work at all. In comparison images on Googles blog (at the top of this page), the company showed a heavily-shadowed receipt being corrected to crisp black and white using the process.

Its the latest upgrade Google has added to Drives document scanning capabilities. The company recently added an option to add black and white filters to scanned images, as well as the ability to save scanned files as either PDFs or JPEGs. Yet the latest change sounds like it will be even more significant due to the amount of work it could save you.

The update isnt available to all Android users just yet. Google says its coming to Google Workspace and personal accounts, starting with Rapid Release users, where the rollout should be complete by January 2, 2025.

It will then come to Scheduled Release users on January 6, 2025. Theres no word on when (or if) it will land on iOS. Still, once its fully rolled out,
it might be able to put an end to poorly lit and overly shadowy scans once
and for all. You might also like Best document scanning app of 2024 How to scan a document with Google Drive Google Drive just made its best Android feature even better



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