<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e77aaa34-ad63-4169-bc28-5b72e4c6b24d/B5BCD427-207C-4373-B935-659BE697AA26/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/picture-of-thousand-words.html" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/picture-of-thousand-words.html" style="font-size: 11px;">googleblog.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/picture-of-thousand-words.html">Every day, people all over the world post scanned documents online -- everything from official <A title="government reports" id="vdf1" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=public+statements+iraq" linkindex="4" set="yes">government reports</A> to obscure <A title="academic papers" id="hxs2" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=theory+of+interstellar+trade" linkindex="5">academic papers</A>. These files usually contain images of text, rather than the text themselves.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/picture-of-thousand-words.html">In the past, scanned documents were rarely included in search results as we couldn't be sure of their content. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/picture-of-thousand-words.html">Today, that changes. We are now able to perform OCR on any scanned documents that we find stored in Adobe's PDF format. This Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology lets us convert a picture (of a thousand words)<SPAN> into</SPAN> a thousand words -- words that can be searched and indexed,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/picture-of-thousand-words.html">While we've indexed documents saved as PDFs for some time now, scanned documents are a lot more difficult for a computer to read. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/picture-of-thousand-words.html">10/30/2008 02:33:00 PM </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B5BCD427-207C-4373-B935-659BE697AA26/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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