Evernote 10 (newest version) and Epson Scanner with Document Scanner Pro

[mpbworks 0]

Hello all. I switched computers today and realized they stop supporting the legacy version of Evernote on March 25th (so sad, its far superior). 

 

Either way Epson seems not to support Evernote, direct scan to folders made. I seen the workaround where you make a document  that you point the path via Evernote, But i do not like this option as its another step in my workflow on what vs how i had it. Also the searching is terrible compared to Evernote legacy, Makes you wonder how it gets worse. 

 

Either way my question is does the snapscan still support Evernote? i dont want to spend the money on another scanner and still wont be able to do what i need to do. Unless someone has a work around for Epson Document Scanner Pro.

[PinkElephant 8,149]

With all scanners, scan to a folder, rename the file there and save it into an Import Folder. For me it actually saves time. The file name will be used as note title. Giving a good file name avoids rework when the note was created.

Search in v10 is actually better than it was before: They added the „Contains“ command, and Boolean Search is available. Contains allows to narrow down the search in a new way, only showing certain content types. Boolean Search allows complex searches not possible before.

Both can be used in saved searches.

[mpbworks 0]

I have done that, i made a folder called drop into evernote. so when it scans it gets ported straight to the notes folder.

 

The way i was doing it before was, i would make a month for each year, and all invoices that came in got scanned and sat in there.  What i am having to do now is take it from notes and manually drag it, when before i wouldnt have to do anything software related until a new month arrived. 

 

Is there a way i can point it directly to one of my folders that i want it to import too?

[agsteele 2,952]

You create an Import Folder link (Settings, Import Folders) Scan into that folder and the resulting file will appear in the Evernote notebook that yo9u have connected.

Each month you amend the connection for the Import Folder to the new month's notebook.

So in your example above. Connect your scanner output directory for Evernote documents to notebook: 1. January 24

When it comes to February, amend the Import Folder to connection 2. February 24 and so on.

 

[mpbworks 0]

Wow that worked sweet! 

 

Ok do you got a solution to switch the searching with OCR so it can resemble Evernote legendary edition? I feel like this does not find things as easy and nicely as legendary did. keep in mind im purely searching scanned pdfs and nothing else. 

[PinkElephant 8,149]

My preferred OCR is done by the scanner app (in my case Fujitsu, Abby Fine Reader). When a scan comes with a text layer when uploaded, EN will not OCR it again. In this cases the embedded OCR result is used to build the search index.

This means: First check if the file comes with a text layer. If yes, you need to improve OCR quality of this text layer to improve search results. If the OCR is off, search will be off as well.

To optimize search results when OCR is done by EN, check the language settings in your account settings. The more recognition languages you select, the worse will be the search quality. OCR will be improved by comparing OCR output with a dictionary. When several languages are enabled, there are more false hits generated, and search becomes more fuzzy. On the other hand if you upload a document in a language not included in your settings, search may be wildly off, because the dictionary will replace the OCR reading with words from another language.

[mpbworks 0]

Ok so the way im scanning right now, which is to the folder then getting imported to Evernote, it wont OCR as well??? Im not sure when a scan comes with text layer or not.

 

Is there a way for the Epson DS-510 to do the same as the Fuji - the pre ocr? is there some videos i could watch to better understand 

 

 

also i checked my language settings, its set to US only

1 hour ago, PinkElephant said:

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[PinkElephant 8,149]

In general for both own OCR and OCR by EN the scanner should be set to high resolution - 300dpi or better should be selected. 150dpi or less will create bad OCR recognition rates. The files become larger, but only with good picture layer quality the text layer will be correct.

If the scanner software does its own OCR you need to check with that software. In the ScanSnap app provided by Fujitsu it is a single checkbox that toggles OCR on or off. If there is an OCR (text) layer in the pdf, EN skips running it’s own. It then only indexes the text layer it receives. Indexing means it takes the words and builds a location mark for each one. 

This means each word will be in the index only once. The index will then hold all places where it shows. The term MyContent will be there once, and then a list of files and positions inside of that files will follow. That’s how false positives and false negatives happen: A false positive will tell there is MyContent where there is none, a false negative will not show it although it is there. This happens when the word is not identified correctly. So it depends all on the OCR identifying it correctly among the cloud of pixels that form the scripture on the white background.

When you open the pdf in a reader app, and you can then select the text with the mouse it usually contains a text layer. At least this was how it used to be. With modern OS doing instant OCR (at least my Mac does) it is sometimes hard to tell without taking a look at the pdf file itself.

If all your scans are in English, the English language setting will be fine. Just when using several languages adding them becomes important. But again, this will not override an existing text layer that was created before the pdf was uploaded into EN. A good text layer will give good search results.

[mpbworks 0]

Alright, makes enough sense.

 

Is there a way to get the windows folder labeled "drop into Evernote" to not pop up every time a scan happens??

 

I set my stuff to 400dpi it used to be 300 anything higher that 400 scanner scans to slow. 

 

also seems like i cant print the image any longer from evernote

 

oh never mind i see you got to double click the header to open it 

[PinkElephant 8,149]

No idea about this specific scanner and Windows. I am on a Fujitsu ix500, and Mac.

There the process is to "Scan to Folder", then it is opened in the ScanScnap Home software, the OCR is running and I am asked to choose a file name, and save the file. I have the Import Folder already selected, rename, save and seconds later it appears in a new note.