We have at our fingertips multiple solutions focused on cloud storage such as the one offered by Microsoft or Google. In addition, these online services increasingly have a greater number of additional tools, as is the case with Drive and its digitization function.
Surely many of you regularly use this storage platform offered by the search giant. All we have to do is open a Google account to have 15 gigabytes of remote storage by default. This is a space that we can increase if necessary, now paying.
We use all that amount of remote storage space in the different services in which we register, such as Gmail or Google Drive. Now we want to focus on this second platform, since it allows us to scan all types of documents without installing anything else. And storing papers in physical format in the form of documents or invoices is already part of the past.
This is how you scan any document in Google Drive
Right now we have the possibility of digitizing all of this quickly and easily and storing it as a file, for example in this Google Drive service. Let’s see how we can achieve it in the best way.
To do this, the first thing we do is open the official Google Drive application on our mobile and enter our access credentials if necessary. In the lower right corner we find a button with the + sign, where we click. Now the different actions that we can carry out will appear on the screen and one of them is the one that interests us in this case and which precisely says Scan.
At that moment the camera of the mobile device will be activated and the application itself automatically tries to frame the document that we want to digitize. That is why at this point we recommend having the text or content that we want to scan, already prepared. And to achieve the objective we are looking for we do not need to press any button, since Google Drive itself is responsible for detecting and digitizing it on its own.
Obviously before finishing the process and creating the file that interests us, we will have to confirm that the result obtained is optimal. Otherwise we have the possibility of repeating the process again. However, we have a manual option in case we do not want digitization to be so automatic in Google Drive.
Once we have the capture as we need it, we find some editing tools and we can finish the process and have the digitized document.
Tools to help in digitization
It must be taken into account that this application from the search giant offers us some interesting improvements that have been added to the app over the years. All this in order to improve the experience and facilitate this sometimes somewhat boring process. This way we can scan faster and digitize all types of documents in a matter of seconds.
Aside from the automatic capture mode, which is very useful in most cases, the camera’s viewfinder also helps us correctly position the document itself. To do this, it makes an automatic analysis of what we are focusing on to offer us the best quality and definition.
It is also worth noting that the Google Drive app has a function that interprets the document that we have just scanned. All this in order to automatically assign a file name using a machine learning system. In this way the digitization process will be much more fluid even when naming the files obtained.
With all this, what the search giant intends is to speed up this process of mass digitization of documents if we need to store a multitude of scanned images. This way it automates both the capture and the establishment of a name so that we can go much faster in this type of sometimes boring processes.
