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Google Pixel's New Scan & Clean Feature: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Announced by Google as the December Feature Drop, the new AI feature "clean scanner" seems to be a new function of the Google Camera app in version 9.2.113, which was released on November 28, 2023. Among other things, you can use it to scan receipts and remove coffee stains or creases from the document scan using Artificial Intelligence. We'll now show you how it works.

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Google clean scanner: Remove stains from a document using AI

Last week, Google unveiled its fourth and final Feature Drop for the year. This update introduces numerous new features, primarily enhancing the Google Pixel 8 Pro experience.

Highlights include Video Boost, Night Sight, and innovative AI functions powered by Gemini AI in the Nano version, among others. We're excited to delve into these features. However, our Google Pixel 8 Pro (review) is yet to receive this latest feature drop.

Today, we're focusing on a feature initially slated for the December Feature Drop, which seems more a product of the Google Camera update: the document scan. This function lets you remove wrinkles or stains using AI. Here's our handy guide to it.

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A brief lapse of attention and the damage is done. / © nextpit

Where can you find the Google Scan app?

The Google Document Scan app is not located in the Camera app, as you might expect, but in your Google Drive app. This also works with non-Pixel phones, as I once documented here with my Motorola Razr Plus (review). However, after pressing the camera icon (bottom right), the "clean" button is not located at the bottom center.

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The document scan is located in the Google Drive app. / © nextpit

How do you scan a document?

To scan a document, such as an invoice, you can use either manual or automatic selection. In automatic mode, the scan is created automatically after recognition—in manual mode, the app waits for your input.

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Manual or automatic mode? Both work perfectly. / © nextpit

How do you remove a stain?

Now you have the option of removing unsightly creases or, as in our case, the imprint of the coffee cup from the cab receipt. To complete this, go to "clean" at the bottom, then select the brush thickness you want to use to remove the stain or crease.

Then run your index finger over the area to be removed, and the AI will remove the stain from the document. When you are satisfied with the result, save the new document.

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The AI makes it possible: As if there had never been a stain on the receipt. / © nextpit

That's it! If you have any questions or tips of your own that you'd like us to report on, please let us know in the comments.

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