If there is optical character recognition software, it can do deep analysis of scanned documents, too.

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The service does a very good job of searching files, even finding words inside PDF or scanned documents.

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Users have uploaded over 150 million photos, stories and scanned documents.

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Apixio of San Mateo, Calif. is helping doctors piece together a more complete narrative of their patients, by capturing nuggets of information strewn across multiple databases and hidden in consultation notes and scanned documents.

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It's a real bonus to be able to find everything in one place, even scanned paper documents.

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Even books were scanned in and converted to text documents.

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