Most recently Alex shared about the Google Docs API which testing a new features that is OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and we know that OCR can read written papers, hand writings, printed text which is captured by scanner and as well working in images. You can upload high resolution images such as JPG, GIF, PNG and less then 10Mb files you can upload and Google handle the file and google says “the operation can currently take up to 40 seconds”. You can see Google OCR demo.

Google Docs OCR