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OCR & A Dose Of Nostalgia

A few days ago, my mother gifted me with something unexpected. She had found pages and pages of typewriter-written texts from her own mother, my grandmother. Poems, short stories, diary entries, memories. A whole nostalgic world suddenly opened up in front of me in the form of a couple of JPEG images.

Of course, in the modern world we live in, my first instinct was to preserve this writing in a digital way. Luckily, I work at just the place for this!

Read more to find out how to preserve such old, personal, nostalgic texts using OCR.

Update Paper Documents Using PDF2Go [Tutorial]

Nowadays, most paperwork is done online. Thanks to PDF and documents containing fillable forms in particular, it is becoming easier to transfer all papers into digital copies. However, many documents still exist in their paper form – and their paper form only.

What if you need to update the information on the paper though? Then you can actually do that. Read on to find out how PDF2Go can help you not only digitize but also edit and update paper documents. Continue reading Update Paper Documents Using PDF2Go [Tutorial]

How To Translate Foreign Documents & Letters [Tutorial]

When you live in another country than yours, you will face a few day-to-day difficulties. One is certainly when you receive an official letter or document and you simply can’t read or understand it. Many countries do not send out their letters in English, even when you are a foreigner living abroad. So, what do you do to understand those documents and forms you get via mail?

You translate them with the help of PDF2Go, easy as that! Let us show you how! Continue reading How To Translate Foreign Documents & Letters [Tutorial]

10 Reasons Why We ❤️️ PDF

The Portable Document Format is a great one. We know that and you know that. But why?

Sometimes, there is more to a document than you see on the first glance. We have fallen in love with the PDF format long before PDF2Go was born. And yet, this project resulted from our love for this versatile format.

And it deserves its praise! Thus, check out our personal reasons why we love PDF so much! Continue reading 10 Reasons Why We ❤️️ PDF

All You Need To Know About OCR

When converting from image to PDF, you naturally receive a PDF containing the different images. It’s a great way for preparing images to print, yet that is not all a conversion to PDF can do. Using the convert to PDF function of PDF2Go allows you to extract text from an image!

Why would you need that, you ask? Imagine you’re at a lecture, presentation or conference and instead of speed-typing or writing down things, you simply take a photo of the slides. Now, when you want to revise, add comments or simply want to go over your notes again, you only have them in an image format.

Luckily, with the help of a feature, we will explain here, you can extract the text from your images and use it properly! Continue reading All You Need To Know About OCR