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Microsoft Lens App to Be Retired at the End of This Year, Company Suggests Users Switch to Copilot
Microsoft Lens app will be discontinued later this year, the company said last week. The app was designed to scan images of physical documents, text, handwritten papers, and whiteboards and convert them into digital files. However, the Redmond-based tech giant stated that it will be retired in a phased manner by the end of this year.
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Google Adding New AI and Accessibility Features for Android and Chrome Browser
Google announced rolling out new artificial intelligence (AI) and accessibility features to Android and the Chrome browser on Thursday. The Mountain View-based tech giant introduced these features on the occasion of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, observed on the third Thursday in May. The company has added Gemini capabilities to the alt te...
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How to Activate Vodafone Idea (Vi) SIM Card: A Step-by-Step Guide
Activating a Vodafone Idea (Vi) SIM is a straightforward process, whether you're setting up a new SIM, switching to an eSIM, or reactivating a deactivated number. A new Vi SIM can be activated via SMS, a call to 59059, or by visiting a Vi store with valid ID proof. eSIM users can activate digitally by requesting a QR code via SMS and scanning it on...
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Gboard Tests 'Scan Text' Feature to Insert Text from Captured Images: How it Works
Gboard is getting a new Scan Text feature that will allow you to point your camera at text and quickly insert it into any app you are using. The optical character recognition feature is already available as part of Google Lens, but adding it to Gboard means that users can easily insert text without switching apps. The arrival of the feature on Andr...
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Google Photos Testing New 'Search' Button With Lens Features on Android: Report
Google is testing a new “Search” button for the Photos app for Android that will let users view photos, and recognise faces. Users can currently tap a “Lens'' icon in Google Photos to get more info about a particular subject in the photo. But the new generic “Search” button will replace the Lens button, as per a report.
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Google Photos App Gets Integrated Lens Features to Scan Saved Images
Google Lens can grab relevant pieces of text from photos. Upon tapping on the selected text, users can translate it, copy it to a different app, have their device speak it aloud, or transfer it to a Google-connected PC. These Google Lens features have now been made available within the Google Photos app.
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Microsoft Lens Is the New Name of Office Lens, First Amongst Many Mobile Productivity Changes
Microsoft Lens is the new name for Office Lens app that lets you scan documents. The app also gets some new features including Image to Text, Image to Table, Image to Contact, and more.
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Microsoft Unblocking AI To Help 1 Bn Persons With Disabilities
Leveraging AI capabilities in computer vision for the blind and the low-vision community, the Microsoft app uses Optical character recognition (OCR) to read text, scans barcodes and recognises faces, emotions and objects to describe the world.
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Dropbox Introduces Image Text Recognition for Premium Users, Can Scan PDF, JPEG Files for Text
The image text recognition feature has only been made available to Dropbox Professional, Business Advanced, and Enterprise accounts.
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Delhi Chocolate Store Staff Made Extortion Calls To Shoppers As 'Don'
A supervisor at an upmarket chocolate store scanned feedback forms filled by customers to identify potential victims and phoned or texted them with extortion demands posing as an underworld don, a senior Delhi police officer said, according to news agency Press Trust of India.
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Adobe Scan App With Text Recognition Launched for Android and iOS
While the Adobe Scan app is free to download and use, users will need an Adobe ID to get access to its features.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader for Android and iOS Now Lets You Scan Documents
Acrobat Reader for smartphones just became much more than just a PDF manager.
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Google's Now on Tap Makes It Easy to Translate Any Screen
Google's Now On Tap can now translate text from any screen and will also allow users to scan bar codes and QR codes.
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Gmail's New Scanning Feature to Prevent Leak of Confidential Data
While for email texts there is DLP, for attachments Google has introduced OCR.
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After Microsoft expands ad-free Bing, Google to shield students from ads
Among other things, Google says it will no longer scan texts of Gmails sent through Apps for Education for clues about students' interests.
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Microsoft Lens App to Be Retired at the End of This Year, Company Suggests Users Switch to Copilot
Microsoft Lens app will be discontinued later this year, the company said last week. The app was designed to scan images of physical documents, text, handwritten papers, and whiteboards and convert them into digital files. However, the Redmond-based tech giant stated that it will be retired in a phased manner by the end of this year.
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Google Adding New AI and Accessibility Features for Android and Chrome Browser
Google announced rolling out new artificial intelligence (AI) and accessibility features to Android and the Chrome browser on Thursday. The Mountain View-based tech giant introduced these features on the occasion of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, observed on the third Thursday in May. The company has added Gemini capabilities to the alt te...
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How to Activate Vodafone Idea (Vi) SIM Card: A Step-by-Step Guide
Activating a Vodafone Idea (Vi) SIM is a straightforward process, whether you're setting up a new SIM, switching to an eSIM, or reactivating a deactivated number. A new Vi SIM can be activated via SMS, a call to 59059, or by visiting a Vi store with valid ID proof. eSIM users can activate digitally by requesting a QR code via SMS and scanning it on...
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Gboard Tests 'Scan Text' Feature to Insert Text from Captured Images: How it Works
Gboard is getting a new Scan Text feature that will allow you to point your camera at text and quickly insert it into any app you are using. The optical character recognition feature is already available as part of Google Lens, but adding it to Gboard means that users can easily insert text without switching apps. The arrival of the feature on Andr...
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Google Photos Testing New 'Search' Button With Lens Features on Android: Report
Google is testing a new “Search” button for the Photos app for Android that will let users view photos, and recognise faces. Users can currently tap a “Lens'' icon in Google Photos to get more info about a particular subject in the photo. But the new generic “Search” button will replace the Lens button, as per a report.
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Google Photos App Gets Integrated Lens Features to Scan Saved Images
Google Lens can grab relevant pieces of text from photos. Upon tapping on the selected text, users can translate it, copy it to a different app, have their device speak it aloud, or transfer it to a Google-connected PC. These Google Lens features have now been made available within the Google Photos app.
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Microsoft Lens Is the New Name of Office Lens, First Amongst Many Mobile Productivity Changes
Microsoft Lens is the new name for Office Lens app that lets you scan documents. The app also gets some new features including Image to Text, Image to Table, Image to Contact, and more.
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Microsoft Unblocking AI To Help 1 Bn Persons With Disabilities
Leveraging AI capabilities in computer vision for the blind and the low-vision community, the Microsoft app uses Optical character recognition (OCR) to read text, scans barcodes and recognises faces, emotions and objects to describe the world.
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Dropbox Introduces Image Text Recognition for Premium Users, Can Scan PDF, JPEG Files for Text
The image text recognition feature has only been made available to Dropbox Professional, Business Advanced, and Enterprise accounts.
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Delhi Chocolate Store Staff Made Extortion Calls To Shoppers As 'Don'
A supervisor at an upmarket chocolate store scanned feedback forms filled by customers to identify potential victims and phoned or texted them with extortion demands posing as an underworld don, a senior Delhi police officer said, according to news agency Press Trust of India.
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Adobe Scan App With Text Recognition Launched for Android and iOS
While the Adobe Scan app is free to download and use, users will need an Adobe ID to get access to its features.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader for Android and iOS Now Lets You Scan Documents
Acrobat Reader for smartphones just became much more than just a PDF manager.
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Google's Now on Tap Makes It Easy to Translate Any Screen
Google's Now On Tap can now translate text from any screen and will also allow users to scan bar codes and QR codes.
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Gmail's New Scanning Feature to Prevent Leak of Confidential Data
While for email texts there is DLP, for attachments Google has introduced OCR.
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After Microsoft expands ad-free Bing, Google to shield students from ads
Among other things, Google says it will no longer scan texts of Gmails sent through Apps for Education for clues about students' interests.
