Matt Cutts Transcript on 'Will Google find Text in Images Someday?'

[A person from Brazil asks] "will Google find text in images someday?"

Boy, that would be a really big undertaking,

I think it would be fun!

Now we have joked around the pool table about wouldn't it be great if we could crawl the web and all the images and run OCR on all the images on the web, that really would be a lot of work.

I think it would be a fun idea but I am not sure that you should count on that in the short term from Google.