Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Google has an OCR program that works with Google Docs.

I found a new feature in Google Docs this morning. Google now has an online optical character recognition (OCR) service. This is some type of experiment or Beta test or something. You go to a strange URL: http://googlecodesamples.com/docs/php/ocr.php .

When you first go to that page, you click a button to grant access to your Google Docs account. It also asks you to login to that account. You then upload a scanned page (JPG, GIF, or PNG files only). Google’s software scans the image and puts the text into a Google Doc for you to edit and so on.

I tried it; it works. Nice touch from Google if you don’t have OCR software on your computer.