Gboard now offers a Scan Text feature, allowing you to copy text from the real world.
This is effectively a stripped-back version of Google Lens’s optical character recognition smarts.
Gboard’s solution lets you seamlessly insert the copied text into your current text field.
Google Lens is one of the more useful apps on a smartphone, using your mobile camera for text recognition, object searches, and more. Now, one of the best Lens features is coming to Gboard.
9to5Google reports that Google is now bringing a so-called Scan Text feature to Gboard. We can indeed confirm seeing this feature in the beta version of Gboard.
