Does
it annoy you as much as it does me to go pay #100 naira to have your hard copy pictures scanned to digital form especially in
this period of economic recession? If it does I bet this news would make you as
happy as it has made me.
Google
Today unveiled an app called PhotoScan,
which uses your phone's camera and flash to quickly scan a printed photo. It
leans on its software and machine
learning to remove glare, crop it, correct its color and orient it
appropriately before preserving it digitally in the cloud.
Photos have increasingly become a way for major tech heavy hitters like
Google and Apple to strengthen their relationship with
you. Many of the companies offer online storage for your digital photos, but Google's
PhotoScan takes a step further by bridging the gap to the world of physical
prints.To use PhotoScan, you align the print you want to preserve in a box on your phone screen. You tap to start scanning, and then you move your phone over four white dots near the four corners of the image. The dots turn blue and disappear when each angle is captured, and then the program takes a few seconds to assemble a scanned digital reproduction of that picture.
The app works on photos that are free and lying flat on a surface, or it can scan photos in a frame on the wall or in the pages of an album.
After scanning, PhotoScan files the images in Google Photos, where that app will back it up remotely and apply the organization tools that Google Photos is already known for: identifying people by face, making images searchable for things like "wedding" without tagging, including them in automated montages and movies, etc.
The app scans quickly Google worked hard to release PhotoScan before Thanksgiving in the US and the winter holidays generally, when families may be gathered together to reminisce about their own history.
PhotoScan is available Tuesday for both Android and iOS globally.
Google also announced some other improvements to Google Photos Tuesday viz...
·
Editing
in Google Photos has been revamped with an "auto enhance" quick tool
for images, more and different filters called Looks, and advanced editing
controls, that lets photo aficionados noodle around more finely with levels and
colors.
·
Google
Photos will be rolling out more sophisticated movies its assistant
automatically generates, such as one called "Lullaby" that will
collect pics of your sleeping baby and set them to quiet music. It will have
another around Christmas that will combine images and clips from Christmases
past, with plans for more next year, like a movie for images of pets in April.
·
The
app's shared album feature will make it easier to combine pictures from
multiple people, by sending a link to the shared album to specific people via
an email, a text or through Google Photos app itself.
Rich Communications Service (RCS) essentially is the standard for the next generation of SMS text messaging. It makes regular text messages behave a lot like chat messaging apps, such as Facebook Messenger, iMessage and WhatsApp. But this new standard brings similar functionality to the basic SMS service already integrated into your phone. Samsung said users will be able to communicate on any network, with an RCS-enabled device or an SMS-only device.
It adds new features to simple text messaging, such as seeing when someone is typing back a response to your message and getting notifications when someone has seen a message. It also includes improved functions on group texts, which allow people to be added and deleted from group chats. And people can easily share and transfer large files like high-resolution photos.
Now lemme
see how some pathetic liars would say they didn’t receive the text message. Thumbs
up to Samsung joor…
Source:
CNET.com
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