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Google Docs now has OCR software

article published on 22 June, 2010

Google has begun offering free OCR software with their Google Docs online productivity suite, giving users a chance to convert PDFs or images into editable text. Google demoed the image-to-text conversion last year but it appears it is finally ready for prime time. When uploading files to Google Docs, you will now be given the option to turn PDFs or JPEG image files into an editable ... [ read the full article ]

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KillerBug
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_ 		22. June 2010 @ 23:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Seems to work...I'll have to give it a go with some more difficult fonts, but it read 12pt courier taken by a droid camera from a foot away, at an angle. Got everything perfectly...it even preserved spelling, capitalization, and punctuation errors. I wonder if it works with Japanese...

BTW...you don't need to use that link; just go to your google docs folder, select a picture with text in it, and click more actions>convert.
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KillerBug
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_ 		23. June 2010 @ 06:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No; I already have freeware OCR on my desktop...but it is nice to have OCR as a part of google, as it integrates well with my droid. Now we just need a new gallery app to take advantage of this.
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