Let Google Convert Your Scanned PDFs to Text (or not!)

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Let Google Convert Your Scanned PDFs to Text (or not!)

Post by Viv » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:40 pm

I was reading this today and it suddenly occurred to me that in the forum we have lots of PDF files posted in the fora, if this service does kick in thats nice on the one hand but maybe bad on another, bandwidth use could go through the roof for a while?

http://lifehacker.com/5072186/let-googl ... fs-to-text

The NACA technical report servers could also be clogged ;-)

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