Yeah, because Apple never had any bugs in such regard
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Why use Google for anything. Of course if your corporate empire made a deal with the devil to use Google for your management. Of course the files app on the iPhone/ipad has had this for a very long time and I trust Apple with my data than I would a data mining company such as Google. The less I can use that company the better. I’m not a product and I really want nothing to do with them.
Yes yes it’s just another example of Google’s tone deaf timing though. Guess it doesn’t matter for the general public but for people who follow tech news, maybe they should have sat on this feature a while longer.
I mean seriously, scanner / shredder is an old joke. And what better time than the day after a big data loss story to suggest people scan more documents into that service. So it really did remind me of that, even though I know it’s not that.
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This Google's scanner feature is nothing new. It's been there for quite a long time. See https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ocument-scanner-feature.2412343/post-32757429
But yeah, I totally agree - from the marketing standpoint they should have waited. The timing is not best even if it's just a small feature and they did not explicitly market it anywhere on their own website from what I can see.
Ha ok I admit I didn’t look into the details. I know it’s been in the Android app since back when I was using Android years ago.
I assumed that it was new to the iOS app, but it looks like the timing was manufactured by the press specifically to elicit comments like mine.
Does this include some sort of advanced AI-powered OCR to obtain, not just a photo-like PDF, but rather a close-to-native PDF?
If not, does anyone know any iOS scanner app with a really good OCR capable of transforming an image to a close-to-native PDF?
If not, does anyone know any iOS scanner app with a really good OCR capable of transforming an image to a close-to-native PDF?
How to scan documents on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
You can use the Notes app to scan documents and add signatures on your iPhone or iPad.
I've been using the iOS Notes document scanning feature for this and it works surprisingly well.
I was going to add that Scanner Pro does all of that already.
I think the only actual “news”part of this is that it will use “AI” to suggest a file name based on the document content.
It seems that this has now replaced uploading photos taken with the camera directly in the app. The camera icon defaults to the scan function and saves the document as a PDF. Has anyone figured out how to take a photo and upload it directly in the app?
But does it have real OCR? Or is it just a picture reformatted as PDF?How to scan documents on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
You can use the Notes app to scan documents and add signatures on your iPhone or iPad.support.apple.com
I've been using the iOS Notes document scanning feature for this and it works surprisingly well.
It does OCR.
I recently switched from cable to YouTube TV and used the feature to photograph several screens from the cable co. DVR showing my recording list. Notes converted all the shows listed to text I was able to copy/paste over to YouTube TV for a new recording list.
The Files app has had it for a while too. Scan to your phone or iCloud. Feels a bit easier than scanning to Notes.
TBH, iCloud has lost more of my files than Google ever has.
Lucky I do local backups too. Carbon Copy Cloner ftw.
It’s surprising that you still use a 3rd party app when apple has had a document scanner feature built in to iOS for years. No, it wasn’t available in google drive until now, but it has certainly been available in some of the default apps such as notes or files for years.