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Let Google Convert Your Scanned PDFs To Text

By Kevin Purdy on November 1, 2008 at 12:00 AM

Got a bunch of scanned documents in PDF format but lack for good text-converting OCR software? Google is now indexing their text conversions of PDFs, which means anyone with access to open web space can let their monstrous servers do all the heavy lifting. The Digital Inspiration blog recommends putting your PDF files in a folder and creating a page that links to all of them. If you’re a bit concerned about dropping all that text into the public’s search results and you own your space, you can use Google’s Webmaster Tools to reign in what gets scanned and indexed on your site, although you should assume anything you put online can be found by those looking for it.

Convert Scanned PDF Documents to Text with Google OCR [Digital Inspiration]


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