jobacle 0 Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Is it better to save written notes (from a Remarkable or other device) as PDF files or PNG files when it comes to OCR? I want these to be searchable with minimal lag time once uploaded to Evernote. Thanks! Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 10,720 Posted October 24, 2022 Level 5* Share Posted October 24, 2022 AFAIK PNG files cannot contain multi-page notes while PDF can. If you save to a searchable PDF before you attach the files, you should have the shortest delay while the index updates to include new content. If you have handwritten content, beware that handwriting in PDFs is not OCR'd. Those pages should be in PNG or JPG files. 2 Link to comment
stocky2605 399 Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 it also could make sense to export them without background (e. g. lines) to get better OCR results of handwritten notes. I‘m also a reMarkable user - not sure if it is possible to exclude the background 😇 1 Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 6,763 Posted October 24, 2022 Level 5 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Handwriting must be saved in picture files (PNG, JPG or GIF) to be OCRed. Handwriting in pdfs will not be OCRed. Make sure to select the proper languages in account settings, personal settings. The more languages you select, the more fuzzy the OCR result will be, because in case it can’t exactly read a handwritten word, it will add guesses from all languages. Make sure the pictures are „clean“ - every element beyond the pure handwriting can disturb the OCR result. 1 Link to comment
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