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Right? I love the OCR for Google Drive. It's such a useful, hidden feature.

By the way, why do you wait 10 minutes? Is there a signal that the PDF is done processing?

Or is there just some kind of voodoo magic that seems to happen that just takes 10 minutes to do?

2 minutes is probably long enough. I did notice that google drive doesn't seem to like it if you upload a lot of files. I have had files sit and never get OCR, but I forgot about them so they may have OCR on them now.

Also, I am not aware of a signal when it is done.

You got to love modern software. It may do it or not. It may do it within an unknowable timeframe. But if it does it, it’s wonderful.

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