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Google Debuts Dedicated Docs App for Android

Apr 27, 2011, 11:22 AM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Apr 27, 2011, 12:15 PM

Google today announced the availability of a brand new application for the Android platform that allows users to interact with Google Docs from their handset. The device-side application lets people more easily search through their documents and share documents from their handset, though actual document editing still takes place in the mobile browser. The application allows for file uploads from the handset to Docs and users can open Docs directly from Gmail on their Android handset. The app allows users to take snapshots of text with their camera, upload the image to Docs, where optical character recognition will translate the text and embed it into a new document (English only). The free application is available to Android devices running Android 2.1 Eclair and up.

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CellStudent

Apr 27, 2011, 2:09 PM

Hooray!

I love it already!

analyst422

Apr 27, 2011, 12:13 PM

Works surprisingly well...

Quite better than QuickOffice or whatever that crap is. It synced up perfectly, and is a great step towards better document creation and management on Android phones.

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