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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Google Drive Allows Mobile Character Recognition

Lucas Mearian reports that updates to Google Drive allow smartphone users to convert photos of documents into text . The conversion is actually done in Google Drive, eliminating the burden on the phone's processor. This functionality will allow text search of documents and receipts that have been decoded by optical character recognition.

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