Google Lens has let users scan, save, and translate text using their smartphone cameras for years, but recent updates have added new features like text-to-speech narration, barcode scanning, and, as ...

The Notes app hides many secrets (and we’re not only talking about nudes). It’s filled with little-known features like tags, not to mention a literal secret chatting system. One of its best hidden ...

Google is about to integrate its Lens image recognition tool into its Gboard mobile keyboard. Thanks to the Scan Text function, you'll be able to scan a document and retrieve the text it contains.

We've been scanning documents since before the smartphone, but it all got a lot easier after that. And camera technology advanced to a point where it's easy to turn any document into a digital version ...

Have you ever found yourself frantically scribbling down notes from a meeting, struggling to copy a recipe from a magazine, or trying to preserve the details of a handwritten letter? These moments can ...

You may have a flatbed scanner at home or perhaps one of those “all-in-one” printer/scanner/copier machines, but did you know your smartphone’s camera can also double as a flatbed scanner? It’s not ...

iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 were released to the public last week, and one new change is the addition of a "Scan Text" shortcut for quickly scanning printed or handwritten text into the Notes app on the ...

In the following sections, we will show you how to enable or disable ‘auto-scan images for text’ in the Microsoft Photos app. However, before that, please note that the update is currently released ...

I recently purchased a scanner which came with some software that does a great job at OCR. Better than I expected. However, after the document is scanned and OCRed, the resulting PDF is just an image ...