Tips & Tricks for Google Apps
Did you know?
This is more of hack than an app trick but still pretty cool. Google now has optical character recognition (OCR) to index pdf files.
This is great news if you have a ton of pdf’s you need converted into text files. Digital Inspiration offers up an neat approach to getting your files converted -
Create a folder in your website (say abc.com/pdf) and upload all the PDF images to that folder. Now create a public web page that links to all the PDF files. Wait for the Google bots to spider your stuff.
Once done, type the query “site:abc.com/pdf filetype:pdf” to see the PDF documents as HTML.
