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Google Adds OCR To PDF and Images

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the typing-is-for-suckers dept.

Kilrah_il writes "Now you have the option to OCR every PDF and image you upload to Google Docs. 'When you upload files to Google Docs, you'll notice a new option that tells Google to convert the text from PDF and image files to Google Docs documents. ... I've tried to convert an excerpt from the book Rework and the result wasn't great. About 10% of the text has been incorrectly converted and the formatting hasn't been preserved.'"

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  1. Re:Captcha correction? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, because you top-posted on a Frosty Piss just to get higher on the page layout.

    I save my mod points exclusively for people like you, and you just missed being "off-topic" by about 4 hours because that's when they expire.

    People like you are why we can't have nice things.

  2. OCD??? by clone53421 · · Score: -1, Troll

    OCD much? Everybody knew what OCR means. If it was some obscure acronym then yeah, spell it out first, but OCR is pretty widely known. The few people who didn't already know what it meant could probably figure it out from context, and failing that there's always Google.

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