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I notice in the comparison the author has the cost of scanning the digital pages. If you have an issue with organization, OCR, and interface, it seems these is

I notice in the comparison the author has the cost of scanning the digital pages. If you have an issue with organization, OCR, and interface, it seems these issues would be 10x worse if you’re digitizing your hand written notes. Just the process of digitizing them with a camera is cumbersome. The quality of the image isn’t really great. Tearing up your notebook and feeding it into a scanner is worse. So the author compares the cost of the writing on a notebook and phone to the remarkable but not the convenience.

ascagnel_ 5y ago
Phone cameras have gotten good enough to reliably capture notes, and there’s software that’ll give you better results and are tailored to scanning documents. It’s a pain to have to scan everything by hand, but I find pen & paper to be an overall better experience, plus you get a built-in physical backup.
- toomuchtodo 5y ago
  Strongly agree. I am seriously impressed with the ocr engine in iOS 15, and it’s ability to successfully ocr any images or photos in my photo roll, even my poor handwriting. My only complaint is that the Apple Notes app doesn’t seem to OCR content added to notes; hopefully in the future it might, I submitted a feature request.
  - ascagnel_ 5y ago
    It works, but probably not in the way you want. It'll OCR the content within the image, but you'd need to copy+paste the text out of the scanned image if you want plaintext. https://www.macstories.net/stories/macos-monterey-the-macstories-review/4/#live-text https://www.macstories.net/stories/macos-monterey-the-macsto...
- abdullahkhalids 5y ago
  Is there any state-of-the-art OCR system on linux, which works reliably without too much fiddling?
  - selectodude 5y ago
    I've had pretty good outcomes with Tesseract, but it's command line only and it's not even a small fraction as simple and straightforward and plain useful as the built in tools on Mac OS X. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
- approxim8ion 5y ago
  Office Lens (and CamScanner and similar applications) are incredible, the output without much effort is absolutely serviceable for me.

ascagnel_ 5y ago

Phone cameras have gotten good enough to reliably capture notes, and there’s software that’ll give you better results and are tailored to scanning documents. It’s a pain to have to scan everything by hand, but I find pen & paper to be an overall better experience, plus you get a built-in physical backup.

toomuchtodo 5y ago
Strongly agree. I am seriously impressed with the ocr engine in iOS 15, and it’s ability to successfully ocr any images or photos in my photo roll, even my poor handwriting. My only complaint is that the Apple Notes app doesn’t seem to OCR content added to notes; hopefully in the future it might, I submitted a feature request.
- ascagnel_ 5y ago
  It works, but probably not in the way you want. It'll OCR the content within the image, but you'd need to copy+paste the text out of the scanned image if you want plaintext. https://www.macstories.net/stories/macos-monterey-the-macstories-review/4/#live-text https://www.macstories.net/stories/macos-monterey-the-macsto...
abdullahkhalids 5y ago
Is there any state-of-the-art OCR system on linux, which works reliably without too much fiddling?
- selectodude 5y ago
  I've had pretty good outcomes with Tesseract, but it's command line only and it's not even a small fraction as simple and straightforward and plain useful as the built in tools on Mac OS X. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
approxim8ion 5y ago
Office Lens (and CamScanner and similar applications) are incredible, the output without much effort is absolutely serviceable for me.