But while this captured most of the text from a theater ticket I scanned in, it doesn't seem to have extracted anything from a photo of a magazine article or screen captures of an old blogging system. For now, the most fascinating option is optical character recognition of uploaded images.
Other developers can write Web apps to work with Google Drive files, which could quickly get interesting. ( Disclosures: I've spoken at two Google events and collected a speaking fee from the company for one.)
In this respect, I can only wish that Google had modeled Drive not after Docs but Gmail, which provides offline access through the e-mail program of your choice, not just in browsers. Microsoft's SkyDrive, however, allows you to revise Microsoft Office files (but not those saved in the popular RTF standard) in both browser apps and desktop software. This reverses the failing of Apple's iCloud service, which only lets you edit documents in Apple's apps, not on the Web. These ".gdoc," ".gsheet" and ".gslides" files don't open in Windows and Mac programs, and the Google Docs Web apps still lack the offline-editing capability they desperately needed last summer. The documents, spreadsheets and presentations you've already created in Google's online productivity suite seem even more accessible when they're in a folder on your desktop (double-clicking them opens your browser into Google Docs).īut you can't work on them without an Internet connection. PHOTOS: Google Maps Tries to Save the Planetīut because Drive essentially spawned from Google Docs - the Google Docs Android app gets renamed to Google Drive after an update - this service comes with extra foibles. Like those peers, Drive provides gigabytes of free capacity and makes it available in your browser and through desktop and mobile synchronization apps that allow it to function as if it were hard-wired to your computer or phone. The strange delay in delivering this cloud-based application allowed many of you to grow accustomed to such competing services as Dropbox, Microsoft's SkyDrive and a great many others. Some six years after word first leaked out of a "GDrive" service, which itself followed clever hacks to use Gmail for online file storage, the Mountain View, Calif., Web giant introduced Google Drive, a Web storage service, on Tuesday.
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