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 ...

There are enough different features and scenarios to explore with Google Docs that 30 Days With…Google Docs only scratches the surface in some ways. For example, here we are with 25 days down and a ...

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 ...

Google has long had Optical Character Recognition features in Google Drive, allowing scanned paper document uploaded to Drive to be indexed and edited. Now, Google just recently expanded the feature ...

Google has been pushing an ambitions scanning project for years in an attempt to get printed books and magazines in digital form where they can be searched. Google has also fought lawsuits alleging ...

Google Now on Tap sounded ridiculously cool when it was announced last year, but the reality of the feature has been lackluster to say the least. Google is apparently toying with a feature that could ...

Google Lens has long been a handy tool that demonstrates the strength of Google's various computer vision and AI capabilities. It has, however, mostly been limited to its smartphone incarnation where ...

Google will soon start rolling out a new feature for Google Lens in Google Photos that lets users search for text in pictures and screenshots as well as copy and paste text from images. The Google ...

Tesseract, the engine, was developed between 1985 and 1995 by HP Labs, but was tucked away when the company pulled out of the OCR business. Google called on the Information Science Research Institute ...

Google has announced that it "quietly released" a veteran optical character recognition (OCR) engine as open source a few months ago. The engine, Tesseract, was developed between 1985 and 1995 by HP ...