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- Gboard now offers a Scan Text feature, allowing you to copy text from the real world.
- This is effectively a stripped-back version of Google Lens’s optical character recognition smarts.
- Gboard’s solution lets you seamlessly insert the copied text into your current text field.
Google Lens is one of the more useful apps on a smartphone, using your mobile camera for text recognition, object searches, and more. Now, one of the best Lens features is coming to Gboard.
9to5Google reports that Google is now bringing a so-called Scan Text feature to Gboard. We can indeed confirm seeing this feature in the beta version of Gboard.