An interesting aspect of this concept is that it is fairly future-proof. Without changing the API, the company can change seamlessly the internal processes:
First getting humans to do tasks that are difficult for computers (like audio transcripts).
As computers improve in capability the humans can check the transcripts performed by computers, and use the feedback to improve further the capability of the computers.
And finally let the computers do the task without supervision and/or sell the software that has been developed to do it.

...according to the Google Maps measuring tool.
Or in real measurements, 500m high by 1.7km long.

Obligatory reading: Manna - an online short story by Marshall Brain that looks at these scenarios.

You can get better results by using CamScanner to capture the image, then upload the JPG to Google Docs. I found that uploading the JPG works better than uploading the PDF.

So what's Google got against Whales in Australia then?

...Australians

The date is formatted "M/D/YY".
It's only the two little countries above Central America and a couple of small islands that use that format. I expected Google to be a bit more worldly than this.

Programs like Foxit Reader and Adobe try to install toolbars, put shortcuts where you don't want them and links to third party web sites on your desktop, etc. Each time you run the update you have to manually uncheck all those options which are checked by default. Another problem is that the programs that do update themselves do so by each running their check on Windows startup or own service ALL THE TIME. A far better solution would be for Windows update to allow other programs to register for update checks that can then be handled by a single service.