Today we take a look at the capability of the Google Docs OCR feature to accurately transcribe text from an image or PDF into editable content.

Google Docs introduced its Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature last year, which allows users to upload images and PDF files that are automatically converted to editable text. Google just ...

We were all very excited to hear about the Google Docs for Android announcement this morning, and even more so when we learned it came with a special surprise feature: the ability to upload photos ...

After offering it as an experimental service, Google has now formally added optical character recognition capabilities and PDF import to its online Docs service. The tools couldn't be simpler to ...

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 Documents now offer to import text from both PDF and image files. We take the service for a spin to find out how well it does with optical character recognition and complex formatting. Read ...

OCR, or Optical Character Recognition technology turns pictures into texts that can be searched, indexed, and edited. Google is now able to turn images of text in over 200 languages into documents ...

It's surprising how long it has taken for some of Google's primary products to get an app version for their Android platform. Today, the Google Docs product of services has finally gotten its app ...

Google also points out that the OCR feature currently works best on cleanly scanned, high-resolution documents in the most commonly used typefaces.

But the examples Google provides do look quite accurate. Countless new documents are now available to searchers — documents that were never available before.