The latest Gboard update has a hidden scanning tool for the text around you

The latest Gboard update has a hidden scanning tool for the text around you

Summary Gboard, the popular keyboard app for Android phones, is beta testing a new feature called Scan text which uses OCR to insert text from images directly into your applications. This feature is similar to the OCR capabilities of Google Lens, but with a few advantages, including preserving the cursor position. While scanning text can …

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Cloud AI can summarize the text of PDF files for free. Here’s how to use it

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Anthropic’s AI cloud chatbot can summarize text documents for free. Claude AI can summarize the text of Word documents, PDFs and more. Summaries work for a wide variety of documents and topics. Jacob Porziki Light reflection Getty Images You can save time by summarizing long PDF files for free with Anthropic’s AI cloud chatbot. So, …

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