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The automated scanning experience runs entirely on your device, without sending anything to Google’s servers.

Shikhar Mehrotra / Digital Trends

Scanning documents from a phone has always been a frustrating experience, especially on Android smartphones. You’ve to scan one page at a time, blurry captures you don’t notice until after, or accidentally hovering over the same page twice; all these issues bother users on a day-to-day basis.

Well, Google Drive’s new document scanner redesign fixes all three problems at once. Announced by Sameer Samat, the President of Android Ecosystem at Google , the feature is now rolling out for Android users.

Shikhar Mehrotra / Digital Trends

What’s actually new in the Google Drive scanner?

The biggest change, in my opinion, is Smart Batch Scanning.…