{"id":127251,"date":"2021-03-30T22:10:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T21:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=127251"},"modified":"2021-04-03T16:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:58:20","slug":"googles-new-experimental-android-app-stack-uses-ai-to-scan-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/googles-new-experimental-android-app-stack-uses-ai-to-scan-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s new experimental Android app Stack uses AI to scan documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s experimental incubator, Area 120, today unveiled a new app called Stack that uses artificial intelligence to scan documents on Android smartphones.\u00a0The developers confidently declare that their solution is much better than other applications that perform a similar function, since Stack is able to classify documents and provides search not only by titles, but also throughout the content of documents.\u00a0This is a really important advantage that has not been realized by popular competitors in this market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127252 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-57.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-57.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-57-217x172.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-57-500x396.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The head of the development team behind Stack was Christopher Pedregal, a startup that Google bought a few years ago.\u00a0His Socratic project used machine vision and Google functions to make learning easier for high school students.\u00a0He found it interesting the possibility of using this technology in order to significantly simplify the systematization of documents.\u00a0Soon after the appearance of this idea, the developer gathered a team and created an application that, using DocAI and artificial intelligence, scans even receipts, invoices and other user documents with a fairly high quality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-58.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-127253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-58.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-58.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-58-711x474.jpg 711w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-58-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-58-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-58-294x196.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-58-694x462.jpg 694w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pasted-58-217x145.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that the application allows you to protect the scanned content with a fingerprint or face scan so that no one can access important user information, and documents can also be uploaded directly to the Google cloud storage.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the developers clarify that this is only the beginning of the application&#8217;s path &#8211; it may well make mistakes, poorly recognizing complex elements.\u00a0Any AI scenario requires a learning process that improves the end result.\u00a0But, as is the case with similar projects of Google, at any time the Stack application can be sent to the graveyard as unnecessary or due to low popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s experimental incubator, Area 120, today unveiled a new app called Stack that uses artificial intelligence to scan documents on Android smartphones.\u00a0The developers confidently declare that their solution is much better than other applications that perform a similar function, since Stack is able to classify documents and provides search not only by titles, but also [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/googles-new-experimental-android-app-stack-uses-ai-to-scan-documents\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":127254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-127251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}