Central Africa Christian College e-Library Resources

Not only can you store your Bibliography in your Google Drive Research folder but you can also store full text PDFs of articles, scans of book pages, and pictures of information that can be converted to text.  This means that all of your information that will be needed to complete your Research assignment will be located in one place.

To Add a Document to your Google Drive Research Folder:

• Download your document to your computer 
• Save it to your Downloads File
• Rename the title of the Document to the last name of the author of the document or web page and add "article #_" after it.
• In your Google Drive Research Folder Click on "New"
• Click on "File Upload"
• Click on "Downloads" in the left hand column
• Select your document from the files that pop-up. Remember that you can search your downloads in the "search downloads" box on the top right of the screen.
• Click on "Open"
• Your document will now load to your Research folder

How to “Grab Text” from a Photo on an iPhone

1. On your iphone, you will need to download two apps:

   1. Google Keep

   2. Google Drive

2. Open Google Keep

3. Click on “Take a Note” at the bottom

4. Click on the + sign on the bottom left of the screen

5. Click on “Take a photo”

6. Take the picture of the document that you want to grab text from - the page of a book, an article in print, a newspaper article, etc.

7. Click on “Use photo” at the bottom right of the screen

8. Touch the photo on the screen

9. On the screen touch the 3 dots on the top right of your screen

10. Click on “Grab image text” in the pop-up at the bottom of the screen

11. You will get the text at the bottom of the screen and the photo will be at the top of the screen. (You will need to scroll up)

To send this to your Research folder:

1. Open your photo/text that is in Google keep

2. Click on the 3 dots on the bottom right of your screen

3. Click on “Send”

4. Click on “Drive”

5. Click on “Select Folder”

6. Click on “My Drive”

7. Select the “Research” folder

8. Click on “Save Here”

9. Click “Upload” at the top of the page

Your document should now be in the Research folder.  There will be a text file and a picture file. You will need to be on a computer to edit the text file - just click on the file in your folder > click on “Open with” and select “Google Docs”.  You will then be able to edit. Be sure to rename your file.