Google Offers OCR for Incoming Docs — ResearchBuzz

Google Offers OCR for Incoming Docs — ResearchBuzz: "Google Offers OCR for Incoming Docs

by ResearchBuzz on June 29, 2010
Google announced last week that now when you import files into Google Docs (JPEG, GIF, PNG, or PDF) you have the option of running optical character recognition on them. This is really huge; this means that instead of just static files, you’ll be able to upload sets of words with which you can do further work. There appear to be some limits on what you can upload/convert (more about that shortly) but I find this really exciting.

Google Docs OCR is as it stands a bit on the fickle side; there are some size limits and apparently some layouts work better than others. But I am still excited about this. If it evolves to be a little less finicky and have fewer limits it’ll be an incredibly powerful tool for organizing PDF content. 

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