Google Drive on Android Is Getting Two Helpful New Features

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Do you privation Google Drive connected Android had a fewer much features, perchance immoderate of those recovered connected your desktop? If so, we person bully quality due to the fact that Google is moving connected integrating auto-enhanced papers scanning and adding much Gemini AI tools to Drive connected mobile.

In February, Google added the quality to automatically make transcripts and captions for videos uploaded to Google Drive. Now it looks similar adjacent much goodies are coming to your favourite retention solution. I'm talking astir Gemini-powered features typically recovered connected the desktop version, among different things.

More Gemini Features successful Google Drive connected Android

Google Drive could beryllium preparing to merchandise a slew of adjuvant Gemini-powered features for Android. While the web mentation is packed with AI smarts, our phones don't person the aforesaid diagnostic set.

Spotted by Android Authority, caller codification added to the Google Drive Android app suggests we'll soon beryllium capable to instantly get summaries for files and folders, make caller files easily, oregon usage Gemini to get answers astir a papers oregon file.

For now, these features are inactive disabled connected the latest Google Drive for Android (version 2.25.170.0), but there's a bully accidental they'll commencement appearing soon. Once they do, you tin usage Gemini to constitute connected documents for you, cheque your writing, summarize content, and more. We're assuming Google volition dilatory but surely integrate much desktop features into the mobile app, adjacent if they're dilatory to get 1 astatine a time. Either way, this should marque for a vastly improved Google Drive acquisition connected Android.

Better Document Scanning connected Android

As you astir apt know, it's casual to scan conscionable astir thing with the camera connected your Android phone, whether that's scanning QR codes, files, documents, oregon capturing a integer mentation of a carnal photo.

Last year, Google started rolling retired "automatic enhancements" to documents scanned successful Google Drive, and present it looks similar that aforesaid diagnostic is dilatory arriving successful much places. Whether you're scanning files with third-party apps, your built-in record manager (like Files by Google), oregon adjacent with Google Drive, your Android telephone volition present automatically heighten the representation for improved viewing. Some of those enhancements see brightness and crispness to marque substance much visible.

The heighten diagnostic isn't new, but present it'll hap automatically alternatively of hitting edit, heading to filters, and trying to amended your document. Your Android telephone volition instantly heighten a papers you scan with the camera, redeeming you clip and effort. Thankfully, aft immoderate scan, you'll spot a fastener successful the apical country to presumption those enhancements, and you tin take to judge oregon revert to the archetypal prime if thing gets messed up. From what we're seeing, this caller auto-enhance is readily disposable and rolling retired to users arsenic we speak.

Google Drive is packed with features similar the ability to fastener files oregon make quick shortcuts to Drive files, and present it's astir to beryllium adjacent better.

Source: Android Authority, Android Police