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Some Of The Best Mobile Document Scanning Apps

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These days no one is actually waiting or looking for scanners to scan the important documents that they have, as everyone has got a pocket-sized scanner with them all by themselves. It’s nothing but their phone. Yeah, smartphones have almost replaced many things and scanners are one of those many things. Depending on the quality of the camera, we can get scanned them as neatly as possible and so, if you are also one of them who uses your smartphone a lot for scanning the documents, then you should not miss in any way the below list of some very cool document scanning apps.

Different Document Scanning Apps For Android Users

Office Lens:  

This document scanning application from Microsoft is a flexible and portable scanner with lots of features. One can scan documents, business cards, blackboards, whiteboards, notes using this simple tool. Office Lens even has the Optical Character Recognition feature which recognizes the handwritten or printed text and allows the users to edit, copy, paste. This app even allows the users to instantly save contacts in the address book by simply scanning them.

CamScanner:

This is yet another very useful application available on the Google play store. Using this the users can scan receipts, notes, boards, documents, and all. This one of the very useful document scanning apps that also has the OCR feature which it uses to extract the text from the images. Scanned documents or pages can be easily and instantly shared on various platforms.CamScanner allows the users the option to save the scanned image in either .jpg format or as a pdf file whatever they want.

Genius Scan:

This is another great choice available for the Android users, this one allows the users to scan various types of documents, cards, boards, notes, receipts like all the other document scanners do. This one, in addition, has a smart page detection feature that enhances the images that you have scanned.

Scanbot:

This application comes with a built-in QR code scanner. Users can scan almost anything using this simple yet brilliant app. And users will be given a choice to save the scanned images either in jpg or as pdf whatever they need. Users can scan multiple pages of documents, edit, annotate to enhance the images.

Some Of The Best Android VPNs You Must Try For Security

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If you care much about your data privacy. If you are a kind of a person who depends a lot on public WiFi networks, then you must definitely be using a Virtual private network which is popularly known as VPN. This helps in encrypting your connection ensuring you safe and private browsing. Protects you from hackers, advertisers. So, here shortlist some of the useful Android VPNs that you must give a check.

ExpressVPN

This is one of the best easy to use and fast virtual private networks. It is particularly very useful in the mobile application form and offers you the best You can easily switch between the servers. ExpressVPN‘s mobile app comes with a simple to user interface. This VPN offers you reliability. 

CyberGhost

This one is another handy mobile VPN that has no strict logging in policy. This VPN has got the ability to evade region blocking on Netflix and other services. CyberGhost even helps in blocking the malicious content from the websites and thus helps you stay away from the malicious and dangerous stuff

NordVPN

This NordVPN currently comes with features of a basic VPN. It also comes with bundled onion over VPN functionality. This combines standard VPN privacy with The Onion Router (TOR). Thus it offers you the maximum required online security. It automatically blocks the malware and other such phishing websites. It makes sure it offers privacy and stability with the DoubleVPN servers and anti-DDoS technologies.

TunnelBear

This is one of the very popular and really useful Android VPNs available. You must know the fact that TunnelBear is probably the only VPN service that published an independent audit of security audit of its services. If you are a Netflix watcher and want to use VPN for that, then definitely TunnelBear is not the right choice for you. But it is good go for other security and privacy concerns.

We hope and wish you find these list of Android VPNs really useful.

How To Translate Text in Real Time Using Gboard

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The android operating system is very much known for its massive ecosystem. You will understand this with a simple example, just take a look at the different range of apps that are available in the Google play store that serve different purposes. There are apps for every purpose and it all depends on your choices, purposes, uses whether you use them or not. Among the tonnes and tonnes of useful apps available in the Google play store, Gbaord is a highly useful keyboard app from Google.

Recently, this useful keyboard app got a new feature that supports the users to translate text in real-time. This feature is actually hidden under the keyboard layout. Google translate is integrated into the Gboard which allows users to type and translate live.

Steps to translate text in real-time

  • First of all, open Google Play Store and update the Gboard app if you already have it or else download it and install it on your android device.
  • Now, just to set up, open any application where you can type. You can pick WhatsApp. After opening it, just tap on the Chatbox to open Gboard. Then, tap on the ‘three dots’ on the top right of the keyboard.
  • You will find a bunch of options there. Just tap on the ‘Translate’ icon.
  • Then, you will get a pop-up asking for confirmation. Tap on ‘Ok’.
  • Then, you will get the translating board on the top of the keyboard where you will find the text box, then the language boxes.
  • Here in the translating board section, type the text which you want to send and then select the language to which you wish to translate.
  • After selecting the language, you will find the text translated to the language that you have selected.

That is it! You are done with the steps. Follow these steps and translate the text in realtime. Hope you found this article useful. If you liked it and found it useful, also share it.

How To Change Country/Region In The Google Playstore

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Using the Google playstore is a pretty simple task and you don’t need too much of knowledge or technical information for making the best use of it. There are plenty of applications available in the Google playstore that users can try and use. But according to the terms and policies of the apps certain apps don’t get installed in your country/region. If you would like to access the playstore of another country then you need to change country/region.

Steps To Change Country/Region

First of all, you need to open the Google playstore on your device.

Then you need to go the left side menu in the application and then tap on the Account option.

Then you will see the option Country and profiles if you have access to the country switching options.

Tap this country category and then select the country in this area.

Then it will show you a warning prompt, you need to review it and accept the change. Once you are done with saving the changes, you will be able to browse the playstore of the particular region.

This option to change country/region will be available to you if you were in another country previously and now in a different country. It recognizes the country based on the IP address.

You can also make use of VPN apps to switch to a different country or a region. But just for trying certain apps, it is not recommended.

Learn How To Listen To YouTube Videos In The Background

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YouTube is an online treasure which has full content in it. It has a number of videos which many feel as a treasure for their entertainment. YouTube is one of the many video sharing applications and it is the most popular app as well. But the android application of the YouTube has a huge drawback.  It doesn’t allow the users to continue listening to the audio of the YouTube videos if they turn off the screen.

Playing YouTube Videos In The Background

Many of us would sometimes wish to listen to just the audio while engaging ourselves in some other work but what have you ever thought of making YouTube videos play the audio alone. It is possible and simple to do as well.

Many people think that rooting the android device is the only solution for it, but there is another very lesser known solution which you can make use of if you don’t wish to root your device.

And for that, you should make use of the Firefox browser app on your device. Even though Google Chrome is the most popularly used browser, Firefox browser also holds some excellent features. And especially it can be the best solution for you if you want to play YouTube videos when your screen is off without having to buy any paid app.

It is just very much simpler to do this, just open the browser and search for the YouTube website, then for the video you would like to hear the audio for, then just switch your device’s screen off and you will see the video playing it’s audio in the background, you can listen to them like a podcast.

This is how you can trick this and listen just the audio of the videos on YouTube, but remember this will cost you the same amount of data it costs for playing videos, so use this only when you have sufficient data.