In fact they already do so, I have recently found several such files this way, and was quite surprised to find they were in image format when I opened them. Of course it may take some time before they index all image pdfs on the web, which may explain why the one you refer to hasn't been indexed yet.
Michel 2009/7/17 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>: ... > I have > heard that Google may one day OCR files it finds on the web, but evidently > it is not doing that now, because it does not find the copy of this file at > New Energy Times.
