Google Docs adds OCR, converts images and PDFs to text
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. Things are a bit tricky when you’ve got a page with multiple columns — your words might not end up in the right order, but they’ll all be there, accurately recorded. 
To use OCR, look for the ” Convert text from PDF or image files to Google Docs documents” checkbox when you’re uploading a file. The file will show up in Google Docs as a text document instead of its original format, so if you want to share the image, you’ll have to upload it again with the box unchecked.
