Last June, the Google Docs team
introduced text recognition capability (OCR). OCR analyzes images and PDFs, extracts text (trying to preserve formatting) and allows you to edit a document in Google Docs.
Then texts were supported only in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.
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Today, the service
has added support for 29 more character sets, including those used in most European languages,
Russian , Simplified Chinese, and some other Asian languages.
Support for languages that were previously supported has also been improved. Improved and formatting of documents.