Good day good people of Evernote. Been using Evernote a TON over the years, love it, and jumped into the premium about 6 months ago. Love everything about it.
I want to start by saying ive followed/searched/read a ton about PDF files in Evernote, but none seem to help me. I hope Ive missed something or im just doing something wrong (hey, it happens).
Ive been working at my current job for about 4 years now, and twice a month I get paid (wohooo!). Im trying to go paperless, so they just hand my my paystub, I open it up, stick it in my xerox in the office and email it to myself. From there, my current flow was to throw it in my dropbox. So I have a few years worth of stuff in there. A few weeks ago, I thought to myself 'Why the heck dont I use evernote'. From what I understand I should be able to scan the files in the same way I am doing now, but sending them directly to Evernote would allow them to be searchable. Not only that, but I could drag and drop my existing files into Evernote and be able to delete them from dropbox. This would allow me to search them in a much more productive fashion then I am currently.
So, like everything in life, I decided to test this on a small-scale first. I dropped a number of files from previous years into Evernote, let them sync, wait even a few hours, and see what the results were. The results have not been good. It appears as though my Xerox scans my papers in at a slight tilt. I thought that this would be the reason it could not do it. However if Evernote could do handwriting recognition, a slight 1° tilt should not be the end of the world. I have looked over the PDF search item in the knowledge base to see what the problem could be, everything that I can see is correct. I have also seen a number of posts in the forums that suggest doing OCR on the files before syncing them to Evernote could fix or at least help it. I use adobe acrobat pro and can do OCR through it, but I have had zero success with it as well. However, if I read through the knowledgebase article, it appears as though any other OCR would immediately cause Evernote to reject the processing of that individual file. Am I missing something?
I am looking for any suggestions to help me through this, I simply want to search my PDF files successfully and thoroughly.
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Good day good people of Evernote. Been using Evernote a TON over the years, love it, and jumped into the premium about 6 months ago. Love everything about it.
I want to start by saying ive followed/searched/read a ton about PDF files in Evernote, but none seem to help me. I hope Ive missed something or im just doing something wrong (hey, it happens).
Ive been working at my current job for about 4 years now, and twice a month I get paid (wohooo!). Im trying to go paperless, so they just hand my my paystub, I open it up, stick it in my xerox in the office and email it to myself. From there, my current flow was to throw it in my dropbox. So I have a few years worth of stuff in there. A few weeks ago, I thought to myself 'Why the heck dont I use evernote'. From what I understand I should be able to scan the files in the same way I am doing now, but sending them directly to Evernote would allow them to be searchable. Not only that, but I could drag and drop my existing files into Evernote and be able to delete them from dropbox. This would allow me to search them in a much more productive fashion then I am currently.
So, like everything in life, I decided to test this on a small-scale first. I dropped a number of files from previous years into Evernote, let them sync, wait even a few hours, and see what the results were. The results have not been good. It appears as though my Xerox scans my papers in at a slight tilt. I thought that this would be the reason it could not do it. However if Evernote could do handwriting recognition, a slight 1° tilt should not be the end of the world. I have looked over the PDF search item in the knowledge base to see what the problem could be, everything that I can see is correct. I have also seen a number of posts in the forums that suggest doing OCR on the files before syncing them to Evernote could fix or at least help it. I use adobe acrobat pro and can do OCR through it, but I have had zero success with it as well. However, if I read through the knowledgebase article, it appears as though any other OCR would immediately cause Evernote to reject the processing of that individual file. Am I missing something?
I am looking for any suggestions to help me through this, I simply want to search my PDF files successfully and thoroughly.
Thanks!
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