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I'd like to leave Evernote (I moved to Linux, which they don't support, and their web app is insufficient). But for me the killer feature is doing OCR on PDFs a
by hirundo 7y ago
I'd like to leave Evernote (I moved to Linux, which they don't support, and their web app is insufficient). But for me the killer feature is doing OCR on PDFs and images you post and including it in search. I haven't found that elsewhere. Does anyone else do that?
- zenbob 7y agoOneNote has this: "OneNote can search typed text, handwritten notes, and words that appear in inserted images." https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Search-for-Notes-in-OneNote-for-Windows-10-01F1DA59-8B41-4DC7-B060-9A220AD2EC57 https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Search-for-Notes-in... But it won't help your Linux support issue :(
- criddell 7y agoThe last time I tried, OneNote was very slow with this. It took a day or two after saving before my handwritten text would be found by search.
- nika1975 7y agoUnfortunately search in images never works for me in OneNote. I have quite a few PDF documents with scanned contracts as images and none of them are found by OneNote or OneDrive search.The content in the images of the PDF files are immediately available in search results on my Google Drive.
- sp332 7y agoDropbox just added this at the end of last year. https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/09/dropbox-finally-adds-automatic-ocr-for-all-your-pdfs-and-photos/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/09/dropbox-finally-adds-autom...
- criddell 7y agoDropbox feels like they are in the same shitty spot that Evernote is in. They took way too much cash from investors and can't run a great little file-syncing-and-sharing business.
- driverdan 7y agoIf you want to DIY tesseract is open source and does decent OCR. You can even train it yourself.