I love Gmail, it is THE best email application out there both web and desktop and it just keeps getting better and better. It is that time of the year when our 401(k) plan sends out a document talking about the Safe Harbor matches for the next year. Well our HR lady emails us out a PDF from the plan administrators and instead of downloading it I decide to click the “View and HTML ” Link.

I notice that some of the text is a little garbled but that is usually true with the PDF conversion because there can be images and all kinds of stuff in the PDF. I decided to switch over and download it so I can print it off in the native format. To my amazement this was actually a scanned document that was just an image converted to PDF. yeah no text whatsoever.

What this means is that Gmail is doing an OCR on the paper and displaying it. That is AMAZING that they go to that lengths to make your user experience better.

I <3 Gmail!