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The final thing that has me trapped with Evernote is the very good OCR for both images and PDFs. The second I figure out a replacement for that which works grea
by cianmm 4y ago
The final thing that has me trapped with Evernote is the very good OCR for both images and PDFs. The second I figure out a replacement for that which works great on Mac and iOS I am gone.
- gumby 4y agoOn ios this is now baked into Notes.app I use swiftscan because I've been using it a long time (same reason you use evernote) but the Notes scanner is pretty effective if Notes works for you.
- cianmm 4y agoDo you know if Notes performs the OCR on files that [are imported over from Evernote?](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205793 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205793) I have many hundreds (maybe low-thousands) of PDFs and images that I need to be able to access once in a blue moon, but when I need them Evernote's OCR makes it easy. I guess I could just try it out with a subsection of notes.
- cianmm 4y agoI’ve imported a bunch of PDFs and various image formats and it doesn’t seem to be scanning them. I’ll check back later in case it’s a feature it does in the background.
- gumby 4y agoI think you have to scan directly from notes.
- cianmm 4y agoNope, looks like it indexed over night! Time for the giant migration!
- Lendal 4y agoOn iPhone, Notes is excellent. In a browser on icloud.com it's terrible. I need it to work in a web browser because I do software development on Windows. Notes is not an option until the browser version works just as well as the mobile version. For now, I can use Notes for personal but not for work.
- soundnote 4y agoAmplenote has OCR for images and a pretty Evernote like interface.
- skinnymuch 4y agoI think there are different apps that do this. Devonthink does and imports Evernote however many say it’s a bulky app that does a lot. I don’t feel that way but I like Devonthink.