Google Docs OCR Demonstration

One cannot really deny the fact that Google is constantly working on new features for their popular online services like Gmail or Google Docs. The latest feature is currently available as a demonstration only and not yet integrated into Google Docs. The Google Docs OCR demonstration can OCR the three image formats jpg, png and gif. Google lists the following limitations that are currently in place:

• Files must be fairly high-resolution — rule of thumb is 10 pixel character height.
• Maximum file size: 10MB, maximum resolution: 25 mega pixel
• The larger the file, the longer the OCR operation will take (500K: ~15s, 2MB: ~40s, 10MB: forever)

Supported image formats that are uploaded on the demonstration page will be turned into text documents and displayed in Google Docs once the process has been completed. The quality depends largely on the quality of the image. It is usually necessary to look over the text and correct errors that have been made during character recognition. Google Docs helps in the error correction by underlining unknown words in red in its interface. It still takes some time to correct the errors.

The OCR demonstration is linked to a Google Docs account but not integrated into Google Docs yet. It is very likely that Google will integrated OCR capabilities to Google Docs in the near future. You can use the demonstration page for now to test the OCR service.

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4 Responses to “Google Docs OCR Demonstration”

1. 100rabh says:

   September 29, 2009 at 4:34 pm

   so can we now use, Google docs to break Google Captcha ???

   This comment was originally posted on FriendFeed

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2. Martín Aberastegue says:

   September 29, 2009 at 5:07 pm

   Thats great! now spammers will have another tool to solve captchas!XD

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3. hello says:

   September 30, 2009 at 12:01 pm

   Nice, I took a screen shot of google books and passed in into the google OCR and it did get the titles and larger font headings, but the body of the text was not scan-able.

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4. manikandan says:

   October 12, 2009 at 3:46 pm

   None of my images get uploaded… Even the sample one. Why the hell it is happening???

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