Google Docs API - Now with OCR capability

I do believe I'm going to have to add the Google Docs API to the list of APIs to cool to not use.

The docs API provides a sort of file manager API, which isn't that exciting. And the fact that you can easily export to PDF and .doc is cool. But what really got my imagination going was the fact that you can use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to generate a document.

I'm not sure how I'd use this, but it seems like a very powerful feature just waiting to be mashed up with some other service.

Thanks to Download Squad who I first saw mentioned the new capability.