Google Stack Is a CamScanner Alternative That’s Smarter Than The Average Doc Scanner

Google Stack is here, and it is the latest in a line of Google’s AI based apps and services that might just make your life easier in terms of all the physical documents that you may have on you. Made by the Area 120 team at Google, Stack uses technology based on the Google DocAI artificial intelligence engine, to intelligently gauge content that you can with your camera and transform into PDF files. Essentially, by using Google Stack, you can potentially turn your paper bills into digital PDFs, and also get the text content of the PDFs in a searchable format.

Christopher Pedregal, team leader of Stack, wrote on the official Google blog post, “Take a photo of a document and Stack will scan it, automatically name it for you, and suggest the right category — or “stack,” as we call them — for you to store it in. Stack will identify important information in your documents (such as “due date” or “total amount due”) and pull it out to make it easier to find and access. You can also search through the full text of your documents (not just the title) to quickly find what you need.”

All the documents that you scan via Google Stack will be saved in your Google Drive storage, so you can access them at any moment you please. Pegregal also states that with Stack, users can choose to add a layer of security by requiring face or fingerprint authentication — something that might be key since Google Stack wants you to scan all your bills, paychecks and important documents to classify in terms of the text in them. In short, you wouldn’t want everyone to see the information that’s stored in your Stacks folders.

However, it’s important to note that Stack is right now only an experiment, which means that it may also not make it to a stable, public build. Google itself admits that Stack still makes plenty of mistakes in terms of its text recognition, but it certainly sounds like a more than worthy successor to CamScanner, and definitely a far more intelligent one than the latter — or any standard PDF document scanner, for that matter. Stack will only be available in USA for Android, at least for now.

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