Along with organizing documents locally using AI, Google’s Android operating system will also leverage the DigiLocker application programming interface.
Google on Monday announced a partnership with DigiLocker, a government-mandated credential storage system, to bring local storage of government-issued credentials to Android devices.
Announced at the company’s Google for India conference, the partnership is part of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) services including on-device text and image processing to identify important documents and organize them into a folder. Files are stored locally.
Abhishek Singh, President, and CEO of the National Electronic Governance Division (NeGD) said that the application developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) is now allowed to function as a document. official and “very soon”. , DigiLocker will be available on Android devices by default, as a pre-installed service.
Google says its AI ID organization system will use AI processing that is located locally on each device and will not disclose any sensitive material to the internet. The AI system will be able to locally identify government-issued documents such as Aadhaar and PAN. There will be a pattern key to secure locally stored copies of identity documents.
Google announced a series of India-specific initiatives at its event. In a conversation with Ashwini Vaishnaw, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, said that India has set the standards for a wide range of technology tools that Google has built for the world.
“UPI is one of the biggest examples that I cite in terms of a successful digital tool, thanks to our learning with Google Pay. Outside this, we have seen the use of an AI tool to use in flood forecasting that we have developed here, and are starting to use gradually around the world beginning with Bangladesh,” Sundar Pichai stated.
