There are enough different features and scenarios to explore with Google Docs that 30 Days With…Google Docs only scratches the surface in some ways. For example, here we are with 25 days down and a ...

Google Drive is an essential part of my daily work, as I use it to store things, to keep notes, and also to edit and create documents. It might not be (yet) as versatile as what Microsoft Office has ...

The Google Docs Blog announced you can now upload old scanned documents into Google Docs and Google will OCR the documents. OCR will convert the text scans from a picture into selectable and ...

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature in Google Drive allows users to automatically extract text from PDF files and save them in a Google Docs document. This can help to save time when ...

Google has been pushing an ambitions scanning project for years in an attempt to get printed books and magazines in digital form where they can be searched. Google has also fought lawsuits alleging ...

Anybody else surprised that the OCR algorithm actually picked up the watermark without a hitch? I had difficulties deciphering it myself, I would have figured the OCR would just dismiss it as a ...

Google has covered quite a lot of turf during the march toward its goal of making every last bit of the world's information searchable. But considering all the ground that has yet to be ...

Jacob is a technology writer and researcher. He's also an avid sports fan, especially when it comes to the Chicago White Sox. When not working, you can usually find him tweaking his Android devices or ...

I guarantee that at least once in your life you've had to manually type the text of a printed paper into a digital document, and I'm sure halfway through you cursed at your keyboard and wished you ...

Scanned PDFs are a kind of darknet on a web -- at best search engines see an image inside a PDF, but can't parse out the actual text. But now that's changed as Google recently announced that it will ...

Google has long had Optical Character Recognition features in Google Drive, allowing scanned paper document uploaded to Drive to be indexed and edited. Now, Google just recently expanded the feature ...