Bill Hamilton 2 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 EN 10 will search and find an 8 digit serial number in both a 10 page invoice scanned to pdf, and also a 1 page email where I know it occurs in both. HOWEVER it won't show me WHICH page on the invoice the serial number occurs which makes it useless. Legacy did it FINE and quickly. Looking for a workaround. Will upgrading to Professional help? Currently on Personal. Sad about Legacy going away. 1 Link to comment
Level 5 Dave-in-Decatur 3,968 Posted February 23 Level 5 Share Posted February 23 I don't think a Professional upgrade will change this. I have Professional, and still have to search separately to find the exact page in a PDF. What I do find is that if I have the PDF set to display all pages and do a search in the note (not the main search bar), it finds and highlights instances throughout the PDF. 1 Link to comment
Bill Hamilton 2 Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 Yeah that was the first thing I tried. But thanks. Wonder if that’s a professional thing. Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 11,677 Posted February 24 Level 5* Share Posted February 24 AFAIK Ctrl+F to search in a note (when you have selected the note) is available at all levels. Link to comment
Bill Hamilton 2 Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 But for some reason, it still won't find text in a scanned pdf in EN 10, but it finds and highlights it quickly in Legacy. I'd pay more to be able to use Legacy. Shouldn't the search be able to find and highlight this phone # on this scanned pdf? 2 examples: EN 10: Legacy: 1 Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 11,677 Posted February 24 Level 5* Share Posted February 24 Working for me - I'm on the latest version 10.77.3 1 Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,128 Posted February 24 Level 5 Share Posted February 24 Some general search advise, this from the iOS client: Search the note, open it. Usually you get a list of notes, and the search can’t decide which one to use for a deep dive. So you decide. Then use the in-note search to locate the location in the note. The in-note search field will already be filled with your prior search term, so it’s just click it and hit Enter. You have arrows to jump from one place to the next - they are highlighted. Or open the attachment and use the in-attachment search to locate it there. You get a thumbnail view with all hits in the document, sorted by pages, and can usually select the right spot. This is fine with large attachments. Where it becomes tedious is when there are several files attached to a single note. In such a case you need to open them one by one, if you don’t know which one is the one you are looking for. Happens for me maybe in 1 out of 50 searches. 1 Link to comment
Bill Hamilton 2 Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 Helpful...thanks....OMG it works in IOS...but only sometimes. Weird, it finds some 8 digit serial numbers but not others. Also weird that it will find the note the serial number is on, but it won't always highlight it on the page. Again, on SCANNED pdf's Legacy used to have an index rebuild which was very helpful. Does either IOS or 10.77.3 have that on a Mac? Still doesn't work at all on Mac. Still sad about Legacy Link to comment
Paul A. 625 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 2 hours ago, gazumped said: Working for me - I'm on the latest version 10.77.3 Can you elaborate on this? Because in recent memory it hasn't worked for me, especially when I have attachments set to display as "Title" or "Single Page" (which is most of the time for me). Link to comment
Level 5 Dave-in-Decatur 3,968 Posted February 24 Level 5 Share Posted February 24 Here's an example. I had to search for the term in the main search bar first, and then within the note, with the PDF set to all pages. Note that this is on p. 19 of the document. Link to comment
Bill Hamilton 2 Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 If I posted a link to a note, could someone try to find the thing in it that I'm trying to find? Or is that not allowed? Link to comment
Level 5 Dave-in-Decatur 3,968 Posted March 8 Level 5 Share Posted March 8 42 minutes ago, Bill Hamilton said: If I posted a link to a note, could someone try to find the thing in it that I'm trying to find? Or is that not allowed? Yes, that's allowed. Be cautious about posting anything with personal or confidential material in it, of course. 1 Link to comment
Bill Hamilton 2 Posted March 27 Author Share Posted March 27 If possible please find and HIGHLIGHT 50283212 on the following on this scanned pdf invoice (email attachment) evernote:///view/11440586/s107/9093aeb9-09fb-d928-f290-0d64b364e993/00346079-b2ff-413b-aeb9-9491a79c31d8 hint: It's on page 2, 1st column, 11 down. Worked perfectly in Legacy (I'm still bitter) Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,128 Posted March 27 Level 5 Share Posted March 27 I would, if I could. Hint: This doesn’t seem to be a valid sharing link. Link to comment
Paul A. 625 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 1 hour ago, Bill Hamilton said: If possible please find and HIGHLIGHT 50283212 on the following on this scanned pdf invoice (email attachment) evernote:///view/11440586/s107/9093aeb9-09fb-d928-f290-0d64b364e993/00346079-b2ff-413b-aeb9-9491a79c31d8 hint: It's on page 2, 1st column, 11 down. Worked perfectly in Legacy (I'm still bitter) I'm hopeful that the new Files feature that is slowly rolling out will add this functionality soon. Fingers crossed. Link to comment
Bill Hamilton 2 Posted March 27 Author Share Posted March 27 maybe this one? https://www.evernote.com/shard/s107/sh/9093aeb9-09fb-d928-f290-0d64b364e993/MpHINtqRkYGdWUIfnCPaokrVhiqoRDo7dcSfHAfZa0F3ltJUoSZjDYCM9A 49 minutes ago, PinkElephant said: I would, if I could. Hint: This doesn’t seem to be a valid sharing link. Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,128 Posted March 27 Level 5 Share Posted March 27 Now the link is working. But not the embedded file: Link to comment
Bill Hamilton 2 Posted March 27 Author Share Posted March 27 why would that be? 4 minutes ago, PinkElephant said: Now the link is working. But not the embedded file: Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,128 Posted March 27 Level 5 Share Posted March 27 Maybe try to change the file name to something short. I try to open it on my iPad, maybe it get‘s mixed up with the file name format somehow. Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,128 Posted March 27 Level 5 Share Posted March 27 Edit: Tried on the Mac, the file now downloaded. Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,128 Posted March 27 Level 5 Share Posted March 27 First observation: This is a scanned file without an embedded text layer. It looks like all text, but in fact it is nothing but a picture of that text. The file holds pixels only, no characters. What does this mean ? The search result is based on EN OCR, and for this to happen the file needs to be imported into an EN subscription account. That's what I will do now. And then I will wait until tomorrow, to give the system time to run the OCR on it. Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,128 Posted March 27 Level 5 Share Posted March 27 Because I am not so patient, I used in parallel an external OCR program, and ran the file through it. After this operation I had an embedded text layer that is searchable. The requested number is found and highlighted on page 2 of the invoice - screenshot from search result in Mac Preview. I only added the red arrow to it. Link to comment
Bill Hamilton 2 Posted April 17 Author Share Posted April 17 On 3/27/2024 at 5:59 PM, PinkElephant said: What does this mean ? The search result is based on EN OCR, and for this to happen the file needs to be imported into an EN subscription account. Sorry, what kind of EN Subscription account? Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 11,677 Posted April 17 Level 5* Share Posted April 17 1 hour ago, Bill Hamilton said: Sorry, what kind of EN Subscription account? Literally one you pay for? Choices at the moment are Personal or Professional. Link to comment
Bill Hamilton 2 Posted April 17 Author Share Posted April 17 On 3/27/2024 at 6:04 PM, PinkElephant said: external OCR program What OCR program do you use? Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,128 Posted April 18 Level 5 Share Posted April 18 Several. My scanner was delivered with a copy of Abby Fine Reader. This is professional grade OCR, but it will only work on files build by the scanner software. For the occasional OCR I use "owlOCR". It is a Mac app, that does some tricks on pictures and pdfs. In many cases MacOS support grabbing text from pictures natively. Link to comment
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