

We gave Google Docs an image of the famous Jack Daniel's Old No. Evernote can also read script typefaces, which Google's OCR engine cannot. Based on our tests however, Evernote seems to be better at lifting text out of images taken with a camera. The quality is about as good as our other favorite OCR-capable web application, Evernote.

Note that 1024MB is also the storage limit for a free Google Docs account. And you can upload just about any high res image or long PDF, since Google Docs' file size cap for these file types is a generous 1024MB. Of course, the higher resolution and the more well-lit your image, the better the results. You'll notice it had some problems with the pullquote and the hyphens, but it navigated the two-column layout pretty well. Below is a screenshot of Wired magazine's iPad app, followed by the Google Docs Wired_iPad_app.
