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 enabled ...

Google recently announced a feature that they have implemented just a couple weeks ago in the search results named "Quick View." Quick View basically shows you a PDF in a web based PDF viewer on ...

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 ...

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 is adding a useful new PDF editor capability to its Chrome browser in the name of accessibility. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology lets users convert PDF files to text. Now, that ...

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 ...

Finance documents like bank statements, tax forms, and investment reports often show up as scanned PDFs you can't search ...