switters 9 Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 I took a picture of a business card with my webcam, thinking that Evernote would recognize the text. It didn't. Is there some trick to this? I read somewhere that Evernote does this when the note is synchronized with the server. Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,149 Posted January 4, 2011 Level 5 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Yes, you have to synch the info up to Evernote, wait for the OCR process to complete, then resync down to your client.OCR process timePremium users: a few minutesFreebie users: longer - could be a few hoursAnd is the image a JPG? Link to comment
Pitamakan 2 Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Even as a free user, I generally got OCR results synced back within a few minutes, though the Evernote servers have been freaking out a bit the last couple of days. You might want to try it again, and see what happens.The jpg you send to Evernote also has to be of sufficient sharpness to be OCR-ed, and that can sometimes be a problem with iSight snaps ... either the shot is blurry, or the text was photographed at too much of an angle for OCR. The Evernote OCR is surprisingly forgiving about stuff like that, but of course it's not perfect. Link to comment
switters 9 Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 Thanks. The text is very clear, but maybe it's too much of an angle. It's been several hours since I took it, and I've "re-synced" twice, and still no OCR. I'll try again. Link to comment
TheGurkha 1 Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Free users are always treated after premium users. the Evernote servers have been having a hard time synching recently (see other thread Information about networking problems) so I'm not surprised you haven't had a result yet. Link to comment
Lougoose 0 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 You can check if a note's contents have been OCRd with this small image on each note: If the image is in color, it has been OCRd and is searchable. If it's grey, well, they'll get to it eventually. It is important to note that text PDFs will show up with a grey image (suggesting they are not searchable), but they actually are. It's a strange behavior, but I guess it makes sense. Link to comment
switters 9 Posted January 5, 2011 Author Share Posted January 5, 2011 Thanks. That clarifies things. The image is in color, but that little icon doesn't look the same on my biz card snaps which indicates it hasn't been OCRd. It has been over 6 hours now. Link to comment
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I took a picture of a business card with my webcam, thinking that Evernote would recognize the text. It didn't. Is there some trick to this? I read somewhere that Evernote does this when the note is synchronized with the server.
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