Google introduces India’s DigiLocker integration to Information app to entry official paperwork

Google has introduced that it’s bringing India’s on-line doc storage service DigiLocker to the Information app on Android to let customers entry verified government-issued paperwork from the app.

On the annual Google for India convention on Monday, Google introduced its partnership with the Indian authorities to roll out the DigiLocker integration throughout the Information app. The search big additionally introduced a machine learning-based mannequin that can assist establish and arrange vital recordsdata, together with official paperwork and authorities ID playing cards.

“We anticipate that DigiLocker’s integration and partnership on Android will drive smoother and ubiquitous entry to digitized paperwork in a secure and safe method for all our customers,” Abhishek Singh mentioned whereas asserting the partnership with Google. Singh acts because the president and CEO of NeGD, the managing director and CEO of Digital India Company (DIC) and likewise the CEO Karmayogi Bharat.

Singh mentioned that DigiLocker has greater than 137 million registered customers. The service additionally has over 2,300 issuers who’ve issued greater than 5.6 billion paperwork thus far, he mentioned.

DigiLocker surpassed the person base of 100 million users in March. It makes use of APIs to retrieve, digitize and retailer paperwork issued by the federal government.

Google didn’t disclose any precise timelines on when the mixing will likely be out there to customers. It additionally didn’t reveal whether or not the expertise will out there to iOS in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.

On the eighth version of the annual convention, Google additionally announced AI-driven updates related to search and showcased an AI providing for Google Lens that can assist customers decode handwriting of doctors. Moreover, Google introduced Courses as a characteristic on YouTube to offer extra monetization areas to creators growing academic content material.