Google Docs

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Google Docs is a free and fairly user-friendly document creating, collaborative editing, and sharing silo from Google that has also been used for its OCR support by some IndieWeb community members.

Features

• OCR PDFs and images. See How To: OCR using Google Docs
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Issues

Sharing unavailable

Perhaps the most important feature of Google Docs, collaborative editing, if often blocked, because of a "Sharing unavailable" error preventing you from sharing the document with others to edit together.

When you click the blue [Share] link/button in the top right corner, sometimes you'll see a spinning cursor for a bit and then this alert:

• Tantek Çelik: I have seen this error at least once a day when attempting to share a Google Doc with others. In comparison I have never had nor seen any similar problem with Etherpad.

See Also

• Google
• silos
• Etherpad
• Appears useful for converting to HTML (using copy/paste and a web UI) https://www.gdoctohtml.com/
• Use-case: replacing a broken (due to infrastructure service outage) home page with a Google Doc, with the added benefit of being world editable: https://twitter.com/ChrisSinjo/status/1402214570278768643
  • "shout out to the verge for replacing their homepage with a google doc because of the fastly outage, but forgeting to restrict edits" @ChrisSinjo June 8, 2021