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 ...

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 ...

Copying data from an image into a Google Sheets file manually can be time-consuming and increases the chances of typos. Luckily, you can extract the information into your spreadsheet in just a few ...

Google will soon start rolling out a new feature for Google Lens in Google Photos that lets users search for text in pictures and screenshots as well as copy and paste text from images. The Google ...

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 ...

Jaymar Cabebe covers mobile apps and Windows software for CNET. While he may be a former host of the Android Atlas Weekly podcast, he doesn't hate iOS or Mac. Jaymar has worked in online media since ...

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Tesseract, the engine, was developed between 1985 and 1995 by HP Labs, but was tucked away when the company pulled out of the OCR business. Google called on the Information Science Research Institute ...

It used to be that, if you hoped Google would index a PDF file, you had to create a PDF that was text-based, not image-based; Googlebot couldn’t recognize the content of scanned or image-based ...

Google has re-released an open source version of optical character recognition (OCR) software originally produced by HP. The Tesseract program was developed by HP between 1985 and 1995 and in its ...