02 October 2013

SkyDrive Brings Smart Files With OCR Search In Windows 8.1



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Microsoft might be making it cheap to get online storage by announcing a plan that gives you 200GB of SkyDrive space for $100 a year, but it still doesn’t want to tax your physical hard drive. With Windows 8.1, SkyDrive will be rolling out “smart files”, previously called placeholder files, complete with Bing-powered OCR search. Optical Character Recognition, which Microsoft revealed at the end of August, will be baked into the OS in Bing Smart Search when SkyDrive is hooked up to your Camera Roll. This feature basically reads text in a photograph and captures it, so when you search...


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