How to extract text from a PDF or image in Google Drive. Playlist0:00Autoplay: onoffsharefullscreen How many times have you found an old company PDF or image, and needed to gain quick access to the text within, only to find you cannot locate the editable version of the file, or copying and pasting is failing you? Or maybe you only need to convert a PDF or image into a Word or LibreOffice document, so it can be used for another purpose. Sure you can purchase software that will allow you to do just that, but if you're a Google Drive user, you already have that ability at your fingertips.
That's right, Google Docs does a pretty impressive job of converting PDF documents to regular Google Docs. It's not perfect—it's more an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for PDFs and images—but if you're looking for a means to get to that precious text, this is a handy way to do just that. How do you do this? Out of the box, it won't work. Enabling the feature Open up Google Drive and then click on the gear icon. Figure A Using the feature Figure B Figure C. Pixabay Free Images - Google Docs add-on.
These Google Docs Add-ons Make It Easy to Find Public Domain Images. A few tips on using tables in Google Documents. How to Hide Private Info in a Shared Google Doc. Control Alt Achieve: Interactive Checklists in Google Docs. Checklists are a convenient and effective way to stay on track and get things done. I recall learning about their many benefits during a book study my district did on “The Checklist Manifesto” several years ago. For our students, checklists can be used in many ways: Steps in a science experimentSelf-monitoring of behaviorMastery of subject content and standardsTasks when composing and editing their writingWorking through a math procedureAnd many more… Typically we think of such checklists as printed paper documents that our students can mark on with a pencil as they complete the steps in their list.
While that is perfectly fine, we can also take advantage of digital checklists. When done electronically, checklists can be collaborative, edited as needed, accessed by multiple people, and hopefully not eaten by the dog. There are certainly a lot of mobile apps, web apps, web extensions, and websites that provide checklist tools. Create the Checklist Mark off the Checklist.
10 of The Best Google Docs Add-ons for Teachers. January 25, 2016 We have curated for you below a collection of some of the most popular Google Docs tools we reviewed last year. Popularity is gauged through your interaction with these add-ons both here (in terms of pageviews) and in our PLNs in social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus. This list is also great for those of you who are new to Google Docs add-ons and are looking for some teacher-tested titles to try out. We invite you to check them out and share with us your feedback. Enjoy 1- Chalkup Chalkup is a great web tool that allows teachers to create classes and share different study materials on a message board that students can access in real-time. 'EasyBib allows you to easily create a bibliography for your research paper. 3- Easy Accent 4- MindMeister 'The MindMeister add-on for Google Docs turns any bullet-point list into a mind map, and automatically inserts it into your document. 5- Lucidchart 6- HelloSign 7- Tag Cloud Generator 8- Lucidchart Diagrams.
3 Tricks in Google Docs to Try. Here are 3 things in Google Docs you may not know. If you drag an image into the cell of a table, the image is automatically sized to the size of the cell in the table. This makes your document easier to format if you create a table first. Suggest edits allows you to directly edit a students document with suggestions. The student would need to approve the edits, or they can say no. Right click on the Google Doc to switch to suggestion mode. Alternatively you can find the option to switch from editing mode to suggesting mode in the toolbar. You can also switch modes by looking under the “View” menu. You can insert drawings into a Google Doc through the “Insert” menu. You can use inserting drawings to allow you to annotate on an image. To edit a drawing inserted into a Google Doc, simply double click on the drawing.
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2015. Add a Watermark to a Google Doc. 6 Tips Teachers Should Be Able to Do on Google Docs. Following the Google Docs guides I have been posting here, I received several other tips to add to these guides. I know it is impossible for me to cover all the details of these web services but some of these tips are really important and should not pass incognito. As I told you before, this blog is a fruit of a collaborative work between me and you and I do learn a lot from you as you do from me. Now here is a round-up of the new hacks you can do on Google Docs\ Drive. 1- Preview Docs A couple of months ago, Google Drive introduced the option of previewing your docs before you open, share or download them. 2- Open Word docs files in Google Docs To open a Word document ( Docx) that is uploaded in your Google Drive all you have to do is tick the box next to it , right click on the file name, select " open with " then click on " open with Google Drive " 5- Create a PDFs from your docs To create a PDF using Google drive all you need to do is to click on " create" , "select document".
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