Does google index and view the text via OCR on images?

Asked Dec 28 '18 at 01:13

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I have a business with a google places address.

Now I need that same business address for another one of my websites.

I don't want to use the same text address for new website as this will dilute the Google places listing, causing duplicate issues and problems with citations.

So I'm thinking of using a screen capture of the address and use it for other website/business.

Will Google still be able to read the address on the image?

If so, can I set image to nofollow, no index, so google can't even see it, only humans?

asked Dec 28 '18 at 01:13

Bruno Vincent

See this related question: Does Google OCR and index text in the images?, which has the opposite goal (to get images indexed), but contains relevant answers as to whether Google indexes text in images. – dan Dec 28 '18 at 05:15
You can achieve your goal using the answers to this question: Preventing robots from crawling specific part of a page They don't specifically use images, they use iframes or AJAX, but the same technique would apply. – Stephen Ostermiller Dec 28 '18 at 11:21

Does google index and view the text via OCR on images?

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