Sometime in the 1960s, hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson envisioned deep linking to specific pieces of text as a core feature of his proposed Project Xanadu system. (My first exposure to Xanadu came in the ...

Acrobat Professional has OCR capabilities that allow you to save scanned documents in Rich text format or as Microsoft Word Documents, both Doc and Docx. There may be an instance when you open the ...

For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. is editor-at-large ...

Google's John Mueller said that when it comes to hidden text on a page, Google is "good at ignoring it." It is one of those things that Google seems not to penalize for anymore but rather just not ...

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) 2025, Google is announcing updates across Android (Expressive Captions) and Chrome (Page Zoom). Google introduced Expressive Captions in December and an ...

As Twitter shoots itself in the foot with a rebrand this morning, TikTok has announced that it’s rolling out support for text posts. Although TikTok started off as a platform for short-form video, it ...

A MIT student describes a method of reading a 400-page textbook in two hours using NotebookLM. The process begins by ...