Help with importing handwritten notes (searchable)

[Brandon007 0]

I love handwriting my research notes. 

It helps me get the information in my head. However, I am beginning to realize it is impossible to search through all those notes. Someone suggested I take pictures of my handwritten notes and make a pdf. Then, I should import it into evernote so it could become searchable. 

 

This sounds good but I cannot get it work. Is this even possible? Please help!

[agsteele 2,347]

Yes. This should work... But as I recall only in an image file unless you are paying for your account. 

It isn't instant. You upload the image in a note and the recognition process takes place in a period of time depending on server load etc.

[Brandon007 0]

I pay for my account. So perhaps I should upload the pdf and then give it some time?

[agsteele 2,347]

Take a look at this too

https://evernote.com/blog/how-evernotes-image-recognition-works/

PDFs are different to images.

[PinkElephant 6,219]

If you want searchable handwriting, pdf is a bad choice.

EN will only make these picture formats searchable with handwriting: JPG, PNG, GIF

If you use the scanner build into the mobile app, it will grab PNG - this will be made searchable.

In PDFs only typed text is made searchable.

https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208314518

[Brandon007 0]

This is unfortunate news but helpful. Thank you both!