WhatsApp is engaged on a characteristic that may mean you can scan paperwork in your Android smartphone, based on a characteristic tracker. This performance is already obtainable on WhatsApp for iOS, and it permits you to scan a doc with out leaving the messaging app, and ship them to different customers (or your self) as a media attachment. Final week, WhatsApp started testing a brand new AI characteristic that enables some beta testers on Android to see AI-powered message summaries in chats.
WhatsApp’s Scan Doc Characteristic Is Nonetheless in Growth on Android
Practically six months after the flexibility to scan paperwork was rolled out to WhatsApp for iOS, the messaging app seems to be engaged on the identical characteristic for Android smartphones. Characteristic tracker WABetaInfo noticed the identical Scan Doc characteristic after updating to WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.18.29. Nevertheless, this characteristic continues to be in improvement, and has but to be enabled on the beta channel.
Doc scanning is but to roll out on the beta channel
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In accordance with the characteristic tracker, WhatsApp will finally introduce a brand new Scan doc characteristic that seems underneath the Browse paperwork and Select from gallery choices when choosing the Paperwork attachment possibility on WhatsApp.
Based mostly on what we have seen on WhatsApp for iOS, the characteristic is predicted to launch the digital camera when the Scan doc button is tapped. Customers can select to manually seize photographs, or let the app robotically seize photographs when it detects a doc.
As soon as all of the pages within the doc have been scanned, WhatsApp will generate a PDF that may be despatched to a different consumer, or forwarded to your self. The PDF can be saved to the cellphone’s native storage and you’ll share it with one other utility.
AI summaries for messages makes use of Non-public Computing
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It is value noting you can additionally scan paperwork utilizing the Google Drive app which is preinstalled on most Android smartphones, till WhatsApp brings its doc scanner characteristic to your cellphone. The scan paperwork characteristic will finally roll out to WhatsApp for Android beta testers, earlier than arriving on the secure channel.
Earlier this month, some beta testers may entry a brand new AI-powered message summarisation characteristic in chats. If in case you have put in WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.18.18 or a more moderen beta model, you may additionally get entry to a brand new Summarise with Meta AI button inside chats with a sure, unspecified variety of new messages, as per the characteristic tracker.
This new message summarisation characteristic reportedly sends a request to Meta’s Non-public Processing system, so as to shield consumer privateness. Nevertheless, if a consumer has enabled Superior Chat Safety for a selected chat, AI-powered messages abstract prompts won’t be displayed for that chat.
