Or, you can scan a document or image and turn it into a PDF using Foxit Reader. The only thing that’s lacking in the free version is support for optical character recognition in scanned documents.

Here’s how it works. We tested over 20 of the top ... physical documents and need to scan and store them, a PDF reader with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature will be quite handy.

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Mar. 11, 2025 — Where there's water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? Scientists have now developed a technique to merge waves in a ...

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These results set the ground for microwave-to-optical transducers with entanglement rates overcoming the decoherence rates of state-of-the-art superconducting qubits. In this paper, the authors ...

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