by How much processing power does Google have at its fingertips? It must be a lot because the search engine giant will now include scanned documents in its search results.
In the past, scanned documents were rarely included in search results as we couldn’t be sure of their content. We had occasional clues from references to the document– so you might get a search result with a title but no snippet highlighting your query. 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) into a thousand words — words that can be searched and indexed, so that these valuable documents are more easily found. This is a small but important step forward in our mission of making all the world’s information accessible and useful.
The possibilities here are endless. One idea, the document imaging business is huge and I’m sure they’re hoping Google Apps doesn’t start offering companies the ability to scan and archive all of their printed documents, receipts, etc.
How well does it work? See for yourself! Here’s the scanned document and here’s the Google converted one.
Wow that is amazing. This will open a pretty large door for a variety of SEO techniques.
Google should be indexing my site not messing with scanned stuff
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Forget all Google’s problems, it just staggers me how much power/technology they must have to cope with all this stuff. How many servers, a building full!!
wow!!! google is always the best
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This would appear to be a beneficial improvement in their indexing, as it would increase the amount of information that would be readily available from a Google search. It seems to be the case that more and more information that is normally not disclosed is becoming part of the public archive. We may later see more and more statistics about our days, such as details about our breathing patterns and more.
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google need billions tons of server to index scanned page
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Well this sounds good. I don’t think this technology is absolutely new. Evernote & Microsoft OneNote can actually read through scanned images or even low-res pictures taken by your phone.
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I remember Google indexed pdf, doc and txt files before.
This is a step forward. I still wonder whether it’ll be harmful with so much information being publically available. Google has search data from millions of users. This gives them incredible power. We are pretty sure they are acting ethically now, but what if that changed? The things they could do with all this data would be incredble.
I find this quite scary actually.
John
It’d make natural sense for Google to create an OCR document where they could store the files for you. That’s data they don’t have control of right now.
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It was already detecting objects in images, so this was a “easy” thing for mighty Google
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It’ll be interesting to see how – if at all – scanned documents have an effect on SEO.
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Interesting development. Will be waiting to see what effect indexing scanned documents will have on SEO and listings. Thanks for heads up.
Wow this is a huge step for Google search engines, I wonder how this will affect SEO
Till how it works in practice it is all in the realms of theory. At the end of it all, only G is likely to laugh all the way to the bank.
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Nice. Hopefully, their character recognition is accurate.
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Yeah i had seen it before couple of days, you won’t believe for one of my website i was getting back link from uploaded .xls file.
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That is the major reason we used, always use and will use Google. It really doesn’t stop to delight its users!! Google is the best indeed.
How is it displaying in search either in image or in text?
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