This is just like word wrap, except that it works with photos (video)

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If you regularly snap pages of hardcopy text on your smartphone for perusing later, then an Android app being developed by [Fujifilm][3] may just tick your literary boxes. Called GT-Layout, it automatically carves up a photo containing text so that each character becomes a separate image. These sub-images can then be reformatted with line breaks to fit your screen area and preferred level of zoom -- so you don't have to pinch and pan so much and there's no need for [OCR][4]. Want to try it? Then you'll have to wait. GT-Layout is reportedly coming in an update to Fujifilm's Dropbox client, GT-Document Lite, but there's no sign of it appearing there just yet.

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