Monday, September 30, 2013

Bing Makes Pictures Searchable In SkyDrive

Bing said today that it has updated its search features for Windows 8.1, letting users search for text stored in photos on its cloud storage service, SkyDrive. According ot Bing, it recently added optical character recognition (OCR) technology to SkyDrive and Bing, letting users search pictures (business cards, signs, menus) for text in the upcoming release of 8.1. The new search features make it far easier for users to find photos based on any text within those photos--whether those are scanned business cards, signs in the background of a photo, or elsewhere.