Google Makes Drawing More Powerful With Keep Update

Google Makes Drawing More Powerful with Keep Update

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Published 1 Dec 2016

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Keep may forever be one of the more underrated apps in Google’s stable, but that has continued its development. And there’s a version on its way to the Play Store. It adds a subtle but important new feature for note-takers. If you like to scribble in Keep rather than type. It has implemented a way to convert your handwriting into text. Once the new update is in the Play Store, or if you have a problem, then sideload the App from APKMirror, you’ll see a new Grab image text option in the top right menu. Tap it when you’re done. It will attempt to convert any words it sees to the actual text. It’s a similar trick to the optical character recognition Keep uses to pull text out of images. There’s no guarantee it will be able to decipher your chicken scratch. But it should be a nifty tool for old-fashioned note-takers.

Why this matters: Even though it’s not one of Google’s most popular apps, it’s good to see it paying attention to Keep. This is a minor feature for sure. It shows it is focused on delivering top-notch features to its audience.