Google Drive now with the ability to scan documents
The Google team has not stopped the machinery and, after last week's conference known as Google I/O continues to release improvements for its different applications One of them is Google Drive, your cloud, or Internet storage space , in addition to being the tool for creating documents formerly known as Google DocsThus, with a new update renews this application, offering a design more in line to the aesthetics Google and several useful functions.
This is an update that, for now, only reaches the platform Android, increasing its number of version to 1.2.182.25 In it you can find a good list of novelties, among which stands out the renewed visual appearance , which bets on the cards Thus, the documents are now displayed in grids to be able to show a preview of its content, undeniably reminiscent of the style of the cards seen inGoogle Now, the search assistant of Google In this way, all you have to do is click on thedocument to view it on these cards and move from one to another as if it were a photo gallery.But there is more.
Along with this design a new functionality has been included: scan documents The striking thing about this option is not that allow you to store photos taken from documents like other applications, but allow you to apply its OCR text recognition technology Of this way the scan is complete, transforming the image into a PDF document where it is possible search for specific wordsby detecting all the text in it. With this, any invoice, printed or physical document is conveniently stored in the Google cloud
Another of the functions that stands out among its novelties is the possibility of downloading a copy of the contents stored directly in thedeviceA function that is accessed from the menu during viewing. Something that allows you to quickly view the different cards mentioned above and download what interests the user to be able to consult without an Internet connection Just with a couple of screen touches.
The options within the documents themselves have also been improved Options such as being able to comfortably modify the alignment of cells, change the types of fonts, their colors, etc All this through the toolbar after selecting the cell of the spreadsheetand press the corresponding button.
Last, and by no means least, we must take into account the effort of Google to make Drive a comfortable and fluid tool, something in which the new design has a lot to do with, but also its operation improvementsThus, it is now faster and easier to find all the user's documents with just a couple of screen taps.
In short, an update that remarkably improves this tool to make way for the Google cloud The new version of Google Drive is now available for download via Google Play completely free We can't forget that the total space now is not 5 GB , but from 15 GB And it is that Google has joined the spaces of Google+, Gmail and Google Drive
