(Archived) Feature request - highlighting of passages in scanned pages

[jester 0]

I searched for this but did not find anything relevant, so I think it's not possible yet.

After six years of using EN for free I just decided to go premium. Now I wonder whether it is possible to highlight text in scanned pages, imported as jpg graphics. If not, this would be really a great feature for me.

Thanks

jester

[jefito 5,589]

How do you propose to select the text in the image? Wouldn't a graphical editor be more likely to be what you're looking for?

~Jeff

[jester 0]

I would be content just to "draw" over the relevant text passages just as I would do in a book or magazine in real life. There's no way to "select" text either.

[lwilde 0]

Jester, we don’t offer that ability at this time. You can pull out the note and edit it in a text editor. You may also see many different products in our Evernote Trunk that allow different options.

[jester 0]

lwilde,

yes, I know - however, this would be very useful. It is possible in OneNote. Ideally you could add new layers to notes just like in Photoshop and switch between layers to add highlights or underlinings or even handwritten annotations.

jester

[jefito 5,589]

I believe that anything other than image resize / rotation is beyond the scope of what Evernote is planning on doing, at least short term, based on what I've read from Evernote staff in the forums (and you can't even do that currently, at least in the Windows client and others). Adding annotation / decoration / highlighting of recognized text / layering operations etc. is probably something that you're going to have to do in your favorite photo editor for the foreseeable future.

~Jeff

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

Ideally you could add new layers to notes just like in Photoshop and switch between layers to add highlights or underlinings or even handwritten annotations.

I'm pretty sure that's not going to be added to Evernote any time soon (if at all.)

[jester 0]

I see. Still, it would be nice and helpful!