Google will begin indexing scanned documents in its search results.

Since Google’s spiders can’t index text data, Google will be using optical character recognition (OCR) technology to convert photos of words into digital text files, necessitating a huge amount of processing power.

Source: Jason Kincaid, “Google Now Indexes Scanned Documents”, TechCrunch, October 30, 2008

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