Google Docs adds OCR, converts images and PDFs to text

Google Docs adds OCR, converts images and PDFs to text

by Jay Hathaway (RSS feed) Jun 21st 2010 at 8:30PM

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.

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

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