There's no need to use scanner apps before you upload an important document to Drive. Google's app can do that for you on both Android and iPhone.

Stack is easy to use and can improve your workflow. Google Select PDF if you already have a digital copy of a document that you want to import into Stack.

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature in Google Drive allows users to automatically extract text from PDF files and save them in a Google Docs document. This can help to save time when ...

While scanning documents on Android devices is quick and easy, many users still go through the extra steps of manually converting these images into PDFs and uploading them to Google Drive.

It used to be that, if you hoped Google would index a PDF file, you had to create a PDF that was text-based, not image-based; Googlebot couldn’t recognize the content of scanned or image-based ...

As more institutions embrace digital paperwork, using your smartphone as a scanner will be a standard practice for both personal and professional use.

Google is adding a new built-in tool to Gboard for Android that lets you “Scan Text” using optical character recognition (OCR).

The software used to scan books, called Optical Character Recognition software or OCR for short, required each page of the book to be flat.