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 ...

Photos already stored on your camera can also be converted via OCR. The Google Docs app works for smartphones with Android 2.1 and above. It is available for download at the Android Market.

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 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 ...

In Drive, just go to an image or PDF and open it with Google Docs, like you see above. This also works on the Android app, where you can use the camera to scan in documents, too.

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

Google announced that they are now using OCR technology to index and show an HTML version of a scanned PDF document. In the past, Google only showed an HTML version of PDF's created with text ...

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 ...

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 ...