Google going mobile with Book Search

Google is opening a new chapter in its book digitization saga, this time taking on the likes of Amazon.com’s Kindle and Sony’s eReader.
The search giant on Thursday launched a mobile version of its Google Book Search, giving iPhone and Android users instant access to more than 1.5 million public domain books. The works of [...]

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Scanned documents found–by Google!

If you’ve ever had trouble finding scanned documents on Google, it’s probably because it was not indexing them. On Thursday, this all changed. Google has announced that it is now indexing scanned documents.
Google is now able to perform optical character recognition (OCR) on any scanned document it finds stored in the PDF format. OCR technology [...]

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