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Perform OCR with Google Docs - Turn Scanned Images Into Editable Documents. 19 Jul 2012 Google Docs can now perform OCR on digital images. You can upload an image containing typewritten or printed text (like a fax document or a scanned newspaper clipping) to your Google Docs account and it will turn that image into editable text. couch mode print story Google Docs can perform OCR on digital images. You can upload an image containing printed text (like a fax document or a scanned newspaper clipping) to your Google Docs account and it will turn that image into digital text that you can copy and search. Also see: The Best Online OCR Software In the following example, Google Docs successfully extracted all the text from a scanned book page and converted it into an editable document.

The OCR feature can also extract text from noisy images as well though the recognized text is not very accurate and the document formatting is lost. Woork | Web design, tutorials, resources and inspiration. Today I tried EditGrid to implement a simple Gantt Chart. EditGrid is a free and very powerful on-line application, which you can use to create and manage your spreadsheets. I found immediatly a clear interface, simple and more similar then Google Spreadsheets to Excel and, moreover, I found a more fast and better response then Google Spreadsheets during the use and a full and more complete control for cells' formatting (border, background, number format...). Take a look at the spreadsheet My Gantt chart is a simple list of activities with a start date and a finish date.

Activity's Start Date is calculated like the minimum value of all Start Dates of tasks that compose it. =min(C6:C9) Activity's Finish Date is calculated like the maximum value of all Finish Dates of tasks that compose it. =max(D6:D9) Task's Duration is calculated using datediff() function: =datedif(C7,D7,"d") Related Posts. 50 Cool Things You Can Do with Google Charts API | College@Home. By Britney Wilkins Chartophiles and students, have you heard that Google has made it incredibly easy to generate your own slick-looking charts? It's true, and all it takes to make one is the ability to read and edit a URL. This has made it possible to get creative with charts and wow the audience for your next classroom presentation.

Read on to see what's been done, and how you can easily do it yourself. Fun These are a few examples of people having fun with charts. Create Pac-man Charts: Google's own Matt Cutts describes how you can make a pie chart that looks like Pac-man. Mapping The API allows you to make creative maps-and you'll see a few different ways to use this ability here. Making maps with Google Chart API: With the Google Charts API, you can make maps and even place charts on top of maps.

Handy The charts made in these examples are just all-around useful. Pure Data If you're just looking for an attractive way to serve up data, look no further than these examples. Tracking Integration. Rich Chart Live. Docs - All items.