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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
by 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 agoStrongly 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 agoIt 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 agoIs there any state-of-the-art OCR system on linux, which works reliably without too much fiddling?
- selectodude 5y agoI'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 agoOffice Lens (and CamScanner and similar applications) are incredible, the output without much effort is absolutely serviceable for me.