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.

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 ...

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 ...

As announced on the Official Google Blog, the company is now performing optical character recognition (OCR) on documents that it indexes and identifies as scanned as PDFs.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

But now that's changed as Google recently announced that it will begin using OCR (optical character recognition) technology to index the text inside scanned PDF documents.

Scanned documents are more difficult to index than documents saved as PDFs, according to Google, because scans might include the ring of a coffee cup, ink smudges or fold creases in the paper.