Search in notes - not working

[francois.fabi 0]

Hey guys ! 

Finally made the jump from Notability and OneNote to moving the entirety of my medical curriculum and tools on Evernote. I've been thinking about it for a long time and decided to make the move ! 

The question is for Windows version, updated, Premium account.

I've noticed a strange behavior when using the search function and wondered if anyone could help me. When I search for specific terms using the search bar for notes, I can find specific terms through ORC 
However, when using the "Search in notes" function, I can't seem to detect text:

Also, written text recognition doesn't work in either search function (for example, I can't detect Heart or When or Water, which are "well written" words).

Thanks
 

[gazumped 12,077]

Hi.  When you do a generic search for 'bronchi' (for example) you'll get a list of notes containing that word. Select one note from that list and you're then editing,  rather than searching, so your highlights go away.  Search within notes will jump you to recurrences of a keyword,  but handwriting within PDF files is not OCR'd by the system. You won't find any instances of handwritten text unless you add the documents as JPG or PNG images.  Text recognition within images however is a whole other issue and can generate a lot of false positives when 'Heart' (again for example) also gets assigned to Hat and Heat as possible options.

[francois.fabi 0]

Thank you for the answer Gazumped.

Here's another example; Penicillin can be dectected through search function on top left but entirely undetectable (I've used all plausible permutation of letters and caps) in the ctrl+F function. This image is a jpg. Quick edit: the previous image was also a jpg. I've tried other image format to confirm that format wasn't an issue.

 

[DTLow 5,745]

On 4/27/2020 at 8:23 AM, francois.fabi said:

However, when using the "Search in notes" function, I can't seem to detect text:

I'm using a Mac - Search Notes and Find in Note produced the same result

The OCR process is executed at the servers, so the results are common to all devices

Each device generates it's own search index, so results can differ
Also Search Notes and Find in Note are separate processes, so results can differ

[DTLow 5,745]

On 4/27/2020 at 8:23 AM, francois.fabi said:

Also, written text recognition doesn't work in either search function (for example, I can't detect Heart or When or Water, which are "well written" words).

Here is the OCR generated text file  54CCA58A-93A0-4B70-908D-103B2718950B.en-reco

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE recoIndex PUBLIC "SYSTEM" "http://xml.evernote.com/pub/recoIndex.dtd"><recoIndex docType="unknown" objType="image" objID="8ec41ecd6f3fe51e48173bbb7e4d0e48" engineVersion="7.0.24.1" recoType="service" lang="en" objWidth="252" objHeight="192">
<item x="46" y="16" w="37" h="9">
     <t w="53">hear</t>
     <t w="49">her</t>
     <t w="47">here</t>
     <t w="47">hem</t>
     <t w="46">time</t>
     <t w="44">near</t>
     <t w="41">head</t>
     <t w="38">hoax</t>
     <t w="38">Tiera</t>
     <t w="38">hexa</t></item>
<item x="93" y="14" w="55" h="11">
     <t w="47">mews</t>
     <t w="41">famous</t>
     <t w="40">minus</t>
     <t w="40">fawns</t>
     <t w="38">mew</t>
     <t w="38">failure</t>
     <t w="37">misers</t>
     <t w="36">fanciers</t>
     <t w="36">musa</t>
     <t w="35">muses</t></item>
<item x="160" y="11" w="52" h="14">
     <t w="43">Asmara</t>
     <t w="37">as Irma</t>
     <t w="37">as ana</t>
     <t w="37">as AMA</t>
     <t w="36">its Irma</t><t w

[Csknw86 0]

I am having the same issue on Windows. Doing a general search for text within images works, but you cannot fully open the note and then search within it by Ctrl+F. There is no way to jump between recurrent instances of a keyword if the text is within an image.

[francois.fabi 0]

Thanks for your answer DT;

Could you comment on the disparity between the two search methods used, in my previous post? (For penicillin)

[DTLow 5,745]

39 minutes ago, francois.fabi said:

disparity between the two search methods used, in my previous post? (For penicillin)

Sorry, I was unable to replicate your results - penicillin not found in either search
It is a low quality image