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Google Apps gets spanking new features |
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Google has added new features to its free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form, and data storage service. The latest Google Apps update includes Google Voice for a wider audience, the ability to view more file types directly in-browser, and optical character recognition that converts scanned images of documents directly into editable text. Last week, Google opened up Google Voice across the US, allowing millions of Google fans to get a phone number that rings all their phones, voicemail similar to email, free calls and text messages to the US and Canada, and low-priced international calls. Google said it is still exploring additional functionalities that will make Google Voice ready for businesses, schools and other organizations.  Gmail, which already allows in-browser viewing of .pdf, .ppt and .tiff attachments without download, will now add .doc and .docx files to that category. Clicking “View” next to the attachment in Gmail will now let users see the file within the browser, without downloading – a feature that promises to be a great leg up for people and businesses still using older versions of Ms Office that do not support .docx. Google also added the feature of viewing .pdf, .ppt, .doc and .docx files in Google Docs on mobile devices, so users of the iPhone and iPad or Android devices can quickly flip from page to page and pan/zoom within a page. In what is bound to turn out to be a very key feature, Google has expanded its offering of uploading and sharing images and PDF files with Google Docs to include optical character recognition (OCR), which will let users convert images of text into editable text. Google says JPEG, GIF, PNG and PDF files can now be uploaded as editable Google, and supported languages include English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, with more languages and character sets on their way. There goes the market for paid OCR software, at least some of it. |
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