Google Drive has come a long way from being an online-only, document viewer and editor. From managing your files to collaborating on Docs, Drive is a full-functioning office suite. What many people don’t realize is its capability to do far more than only view PDFs.
Drive has some native features that already make it a great PDF tool, but the compatible third-party Drive apps extend its usefulness and functionality.
Search Text From PDFs (OCR)
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology that allows text from images and PDFs to be read and converted into a searchable and editable document. To do this in Google Drive, right click on a PDF, then Open with > Google Docs. Once you have opened it in Google Docs format, save it again and you’ll have your searchable doc..
Scan To PDF With The Mobile App
Saving receipts, hand-written notes and other information to the cloud is a convenience of going paperless, especially with Google Drive’s OCR technology. To get started just click the “camera icon” labeled Scan.
The Document Scanner for Google Drive(Android only) is really quite impressive. It automatically detects the edges of the paper and modifies the image to a high contrast to bring out the text. After the picture is taken, you’ll see some editing options in the top right corner. The plus sign “+” in the lower left allows you to put several photos together and upload as a single PDF. Once you’re done, click the “check mark” in the lower right corner and move on to naming and saving the file to a folder in Google Drive.
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