Jay Hathaway from DOWNLOADSQUAD:
Google Docs continues to make the case for dumping your desktop work apps, this time with a useful new text recognition feature that converts PDFs or images into plain, editable text. This new OCR feature — that’s optical character recognition — is quite accurate, and worked pretty well on some old college textbooks scans I had laying around on my hard drive.
Google just simply will not relent in their pursuit of taking over office productivity via the web. This new OCR gem is not just another nice-to-have option you might find lurking around the Google Labs. This is nothing shy of a must-have office productivity power tool. How about Scanning, forwarding, storing and manipulating all that paper in your filing cabinets? Or those office policy documents from pre-Commodore 64 era that you are looking to upgrade the letterhead on?
Well now is your chance.
