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Gboard for Android is beginning to roll out a rather nifty “Scan Text” optical character recognition (OCR) tool. Scan Text appears in the grid of Gboard capabilities and can be dragged to the toolbar ...

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.

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 ...