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his is a good news! Google Docs API tests new feature , OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
I got this information from Google Operating System blog.

If you want to test, here is the steps!

1. Go to this live demo.
2. Choose your image file. Here is the rule:

• Format: JPG, GIF, or PNG.
• 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)
• Please note that the operation can currently take up to 40 seconds.

Wait for the result…

unfortunately, after attempted three times and i can’t get any OCR result

Tester file

Result page from OCR

O well, it is still in demo version and let us hope that Google will fix and develop this thing better.

Related links:

• Google Docs OCR
• Google Acquires ReCAPTCHA

Google Docs has added new features and now they much more useful for students.

Here is the feature list:

• Equation editor
• Superscripts and subscripts (express chemical compounds or algebraic expressions)
• Integrated with Translation feature. (Single word or an entire document)
• “Go to page based on answer” option in Google form; make it easy to show participants only those questions that are relevant to them.
• Added different bulleting styles for lists.
• Added option to print footnotes as endnotes.

Can you imagine, in the near future, all students will deliver their homework to GoogleDocs and their teacher dont have to receive bunch of papers or disc. They dont even need to buy some office software’s license (that’s too expensive!).
Cheap netbook, internet connection and Google account is more than enough.

Related link:

• Back to school with Google Docs

Google Docs will launched new feature in about two weeks.
Your published documents would be crawled and indexed by Google Search Engine if you publish using the “Publish as web page” or “Publish/embed” option.
If you only set to ‘Allow anyone with the link to view(no sign-in required)’ it would not be crawled.

As Marie said in Help Forum, this feature is a very exciting change because we can reach much wider audience of people about our document.
So, stay tune on Help Forum (link bellow).

Related link:

• Published docs will be crawlable soon

Using iframe HTML tag, now you can embed your report, ebook even curricullum vitae, as long as in PDF format, through GoogleDoc feature.  Good thing is, you dont have to host your PDF files on GoogleDocs (from wherever it hosted as long as online) nor you have Google account to access GoogleDocs.

Bad thing is,  due to security concerns, i can’t give you example of using this awesome feature because in WordPress.com ‘iframes’ are all stripped :)

I hope, next time, WordPress.com can give ‘access’ to iframe so that this PDF viewer can embedded here. *Hi, Matt!*

Here is an example:
Just grab this code in your text editor, save as HTML and open it from your web browser.

<iframe src=”http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://blogxygen.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/blogxygen.pdf&embedded=true” style=”width:500px; height:500px;” frameborder=”0″></iframe>

Replace my demo PDF with yours, adjust width and height and added css style inside and published on yours.

Related link:

• Embeddable Google Document Viewer