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 ...

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 use—a ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PDFs are commonplace in most work environments. They’re typically small in size, secure, and compatible with most devices, irrespective of their operating systems. However, not everything about PDFs ...