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Ask LH: How Can I Create A Searchable Archive Of PDFs?
This week we answer a burning question we have all asked ourselves at some point, ‘how do I sort through pdfs?’ The answer is simpler than you’d think, all thanks to something called “Optical Character Recognition”.
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ABBYY FineScanner Finally Brings Its Document Scanner To Android
Android: When we last asked what your favourite tool was for scanning documents, Lifehacker readers went with ABBY FineScanner by a narrow margin. Now, it’s finally available on Android.
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Google Drive For Android Adds OCR Scanning
Android: Google has updated its Drive mobile app with a cleaner, cards-style look and several awesome new features. Among them: the ability to download a copy of documents directly to your device and scan papers using OCR.
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Testing The Accuracy Of Google Docs OCR
A potentially handy feature of Google Docs is its option to perform optical character recognition (OCR). As we’ve suggested in the past, that offers a convenient and free way to convert scanned images into text. But just how accurate is it?