1. Language Translation

Google has its own language translation engine which works with various languages. If you have a document in a language that you don’t understand, or if you have to send a document to somebody in a language that you don’t know, you don’t have to worry. You can do the translation in an instant here.

But you cant obviously be sure that you will get 100% accuracy with it, because Google does not use word-by word translation. So don’t be too confident. But the services serves your needs very well.

2. Editing Scanned Documents

When you scan a document, you get the soft copy as an image file, usually JPEG or GIF. To edit the text, upload the scanned image file to Google's OCR page. The service converts the image into a PDF file with options which allow you to insert, delete, edit, cut, paste or anything you want with the text in it..

3. Group Editing Documents

Google Docs enables people in different locations to collaboratively work on a single document. To do this upload your document to Google docs or create a new one there. You get an option to share this document with others. Click on the share button, to invite the people you want to share the document with. You can invite them with their email addresses. Once they login to the service, you can all work on the same document at the same time and make real time changes to the document. You can even see the changes happening on the document in real time.

4. Self Updates

You can also create self-updating documents. For example, if you have a spreadsheet on Google Docs, and you have listings of prices for different stocks, you will probably want the prices to be up-to-date and precise. You can not monitor the stock market every other minute and update the prices of each stock you have on your spreadsheet, manually. For this, use a formula that pulls the price of a particular stock you specify automatically from Google Finance service. So this way, you can be sure of the automatic updating of prices and also that it will be precise. The formula to use would be =GoogleFinance(“xxx”). Replace the xxx in the parenthesis with the symbol of the stock you want.

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Summarised by the WOUGNET TechSupport team from an article by Sunny posted on Techtip.