The latest Google Camera update hides more features in its 7.2 version. The camera app of the Pixel smartphones, in addition to adding the astrophotography mode, also launches new features with new Google Lens suggestions.
Google Lens visual recognition is integrated into GCam, which adds extra features such as being able to read codes, links and email addresses of an image. Now, these functions are extended with three tools focused on documents.
Google Camera : Scan, copy and translate texts
Google Camera 7.2 now allows us to scan, copy and translate texts. Google Lens will suggest the option to Scan document. Clicking on the suggestion will take a photo and adjust the corners of the document automatically, although we can adjust them manually. Then it will allow us to share the document or save it in a PDF.
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If we focus on a text, we can suggest the option Copy text or translate to another language. In the option to copy the text we can select text fragments to copy them. And also translate the recognized text.
Finally, XDA-Developers reports that these features are now available only on Pixel 4 and Pixel 3. But, some commenters on the XDA article claim they have the features on older devices.