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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Google Docs adds OCR, converts images and PDFs to text

Google Docs adds OCR, converts images and PDFs to text

Google Docs continues to make the case for dumping your desktop work apps, this time with a useful new text recognition feature that converts PDFs or images into plain, editable text. This new OCR feature -- that's optical character recognition -- is quite accurate, and worked pretty well on some old college textbooks scans I had laying around on my hard drive. Things are a bit tricky when you've got a page with multiple columns -- your words might not end up in the right order, but they'll all be there, accurately recorded.

Read more...
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/06/21/google-docs-adds-ocr-converts-images-and-pdfs-to-text/

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