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I'm an Evernote refugee struggling with Joplin and Obsidian this morning. I've got thousands of PDF notes going back decades, and the ability to search on their
by delichon 3y ago
I'm an Evernote refugee struggling with Joplin and Obsidian this morning. I've got thousands of PDF notes going back decades, and the ability to search on their OCR has kept me on Evernote for years. But the latest Joplin includes OCR out of the box, and Obsidian has the Omnisearch/Text Extractor plugins to add it.
Both of those use Tesseract to do OCR locally. I've got it working on Joplin fairly well. But it hardly works at all on Obsidian. That's unfortunate because Obsidian seems to be a much more user friendly and responsive app over all. Since I need the OCR search capability so badly though, I'm about to settle for Joplin. That's not a terrible fate, but the grass seems greener on the Obsidian side.
I wish I could replace Tesseract with some industrial strength OCR though.
- Zetobal 3y agoThat's not really what these tools are made for. Look into zotero or devontjink and use the note taking app for notes.
- delichon 3y agoThanks for the leads, but I need it on Linux and Android. You appear to be right about this use case being a stretch for Joplin/Obsidian.
- tomrod 3y agoZotero for the win then.
- sundarurfriend 3y agoHow do you work with a Zotero collection on Android?
- s1291 3y agohttps://forums.zotero.org/discussion/110371/available-for-beta-testing-zotero-for-android/p1 https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/110371/available-for-be...
- alchemist1e9 3y agoCould recoll help? https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/index-recoll.html https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/index-recoll.htm...
- pqs 3y agoEvernote works well now. It has improved.