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I have a Samsung Galaxy Note phone, and installed Google Drive App. I can scan my important documents (even a book) into PDF and upload to my Google Drive. Google Drive Scan Google Drive App Scan is a REAL intelligent scan, unlike some apps which just take pictures and convert them into PDF, it can actually recognize text areas, and trim and format your picture to fit into a page nicely and neatly, even though the picture may have a large corner where your fingers holding on! I have some Chinese classic Books, which has a square border to mark the text area, two frames in one page, I just roughly aim my camera at the frame, the scanner only take the picture inside the frame, cutting away the rest along the border. You can get better result to turn on the flash light, the light stays on like that in a scanner, not a click flashing as it does when you take a photo. Google Drive Scan Can Recognize the Text Area and Trim Along the Border For You Nicely

You can insert special characters by clicking "Insert" on the menu, then click the "Ω Special Characters", the choose "Latin" category from the drop-down menu, and then Phonetics (IPA) sub-category. Insert Special Characters in Google Docs There is a short-cut for inputting some IPA symbols which you use them frequently. Automatic Substitution in Google Docs similar to Auto Correct in MS Word. You can replace common acronyms, misspellings and other symbols. So you can set auto-replace for your IPA symbols, for example, "e<" for "ɛ", "o/" for "ø", "o>" for "ɔ" etc. Automatic Substitutions in Google Docs

I have Epson Slylus Sx205 "3 in 1" printer, which includes free Abbyy Fine Reader Express. But since I lost my PC with Windows Vista and turned to use MacBook Pro laptop, I lost this facility to scan my documents into editable and searchable text by OCR (Optical Character Recognition), though I can scan images from Preview. Now I have to find a free OCR software for Mac, this is not easy. I knew Google Docs can convert text from PDF or image files to Google Docs documents. So after many failed searching, I gave it a try. The result is quite good actually.  Here is how you do it in your Apple Mac machine: Scan document in Preview and save it into PDF format. Upload it in Google Doc, and select conversion options, tick "Convert text from PDF or image files to Google Docs documents." Now you can edit and search the scanned document in Google Docs. Some people say Preview in Mac has OCR functions, as to my experience, it's not the case. Preview can select ...