Engineer Simon Wilson has released `` OCR PDFs and images directly in your browser,' ' which allows you to extract text from image files such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, and PDF files using OCR (optical ...

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 ...

Few file types are as versatile as PDF. You’ll run across it wherever you go, whether it’s in college or the workplace. However, computers typically don’t natively include programs that let you edit ...

Today's world is absolutely packed with information that needs to be categorized, organized, and, very often, archived. As a result, businesses are always looking for a better way to turn static ...

An adequate performer for basic tasks, but competitors offer more features. PDF creation and conversion applications are more common than rainbows in Hawaii. A new version of one of these utilities, ...

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 ...

The search function in Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to locate words or phrases while working with PDF documents, even if it has been converted to PDF using character recognition technology (OCR).

Dropbox search capabilities have been given a significant boost for the second time in as many months. The company says that it can now search for text inside PDFs and even image files like JPG and ...

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 ...