Google Chrome browser PDF Reader enhances OCR to recognize images and convert them to text

CTOnews.com, June 25, Google Chrome browser announced that it will upgrade its built-in PDF reader to convert image content into digital text through OCR, but this feature is not available to all users at the beginning of its launch.

Google announced the news at ISTELive 23 Educational Technology Exhibition, which uses OCR to identify text content in pictures of PDF documents and convert them into digital text for easy reading.

Google said that at the beginning of its launch, the feature was only available to Chrome browser users of ChromeOS and is expected to be available to all Chrome users four months after its launch.

CTOnews.com Note: PDF, whose full name is Portable Document Format, is an electronic file format developed by Adobe. It contains the font, format, color, graphics and other information in the original document.

PDF file format can encapsulate text, font, format, color and graphics and images independent of device and resolution in one file.